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| Contingency, philosophy: Contingency is not synonymous with randomness, but expresses that an existing fact could have been different. Its counterpart is necessity. See also coincidence, necessity, necessity de re._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Niklas Luhmann on Contingency - Dictionary of Arguments
Reese-Schäfer II 100 "Double Contingency"/Parsons/Reese-Schäfer: no action can ensue if Alter makes his action dependent on how Ego acts and Ego wants to connect its behavior to Alter. Solution: time dimension. Double contingency inevitably leads to the formation of social systems. >Time/Luhmann, >Action/Luhmann, >Action system/Luhmann. - - - AU Cass 10 Double Contingency/Luhmann: I have to think about what I'm doing, so that you do what I want you to do. - - - AU Cass 14 Double Contingency/Parsons: the social order already exists before the contracts, family before family law, church before dogmatism, etc. Cf. >Beginning. Luhmann: question: how is an optimal way found if everybody can contribute their effort, but also their denial? - Two actors are assumed - Alter/Ego. Contingency: two dimensions: 1) Dependency on something 2) It might be different. Common values are secondary. The common values are not even recognized in the beginning. - Pure temporality - One acts first - thus he breaks through a circle. - ("I do what you want if you ..."). cf. >Circular reasoning. Question: what was first, the double contingency or the system? >System/Luhmann. AU Cass 14 Double Contingency/Luhmann: conflict resolution - existence only in execution, no history, no initial conditions._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
AU I N. Luhmann Introduction to Systems Theory, Lectures Universität Bielefeld 1991/1992 German Edition: Einführung in die Systemtheorie Heidelberg 1992 Lu I N. Luhmann Die Kunst der Gesellschaft Frankfurt 1997 Reese-Schäfer II Walter Reese-Schäfer Luhmann zur Einführung Hamburg 2001 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16