The Halfway Society: Towards a Definition of the Features of Human Sociality
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sociality, social ontology, social complexity, human evolution, freedomAbstract
The ambiguous relationship between individual and society is an issue shared by all social sciences. Society is only possible as an emergent result of an anthropological attribute of each subject: sociality. This article tries to analyze the features of that human sociality that is limited by three factors: the survival of individuality, the fluid character of nostrity and the specific structured finitude of its extension. As a consequence, the emerging society will always be a half society, with links that are made and unmade, with ambivalent conflictive processes that do not allow completely compact societies, nor homogeneous groups, nor absolute collectivization. Freedom emerges precisely amidst the thick seams that make up this fragile social fabric.
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