Przyczynek do ideografii pojęcia całości społecznej
A contribution to an ideography of the notion of social entity

Summary/Abstract: The idea of wholeness appears in every kind and genre of social thought. Its concepts establish social thinking and social thought before it would have some theory of itself. When it is achieved, the principles specified in the procedures of methodological and theoretical holism are grounded in intuitions and general concepts, as long as they can be expressed in natural languages. The concepts of social totality created the foundations of sociology and questions about the ontology of the reality they describe. In particular, they have had and still are involved in shaping the theoretical discourse of social science. From the beginning of their theoretical self-knowledge, from the time of the discussion on the scientific status of sociology at the turn of the 20th century, the justification of sociological knowledge demanded philosophical preparation, an answer to the question of what its subject is as an ontological structure. The article presents these answers in selected con-figurations of the discourse about the nation at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Poland.

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