2. SOCIETY

(1-6) Man, who is social being, constructs society. A society is the whole where its members gather to pursue their own objectives by each with steady interactions. Particularly, when members of a society share important objectives; their interactioins can be regarded as a intentional process for those objectives; and each member has strong solidarity to a society, it is a society of narrow sense, and called "community".

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(1-9/11) Members of a society-particularly of a community-construct it for their existence.

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Social phenomenon of a community is constituted of existence wills of the consistent individuals and their expressions and members of a society cannot be without the society, therefore the society itself also intends its existence.

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Because of the characteristics of the will of nature(1-5/1) and the inertia of will(1-16) and so on, an individual or some individuals can sometimes give up their own existence for the sake of that of their society, which is as a process for the individual's existence.

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(1-9/11) Every phenomenon related to society is social phenomenon. A social phenomenon comes to have different property according to its members' essense and characteristics.

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A member of a society is always a willing body. The willing body refers to every kinds of individual that has intentional will of any sort. In a human phenomenon the most basic individual is man, and if it were not a man, it must be an extended body of man's will that includes man himself.(In this volume I will be concerned with only human phenomenon.)

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(1-10) Therefore, every characteristics like intentionality, self-causation, contradiction, and another organic properties and so on, which appears from social phenomenon and community phenomenon that stands on it, is that of man.

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Individuals in a society come to fall in comparatively different position against shared problems that is common to all. <1>A shared problem that every individual meets stimulates common aspect of every man so that it causes unidirectional(3/5-1/401) behaviors. In this aspect a social phenomenon can be an extended type of organic human phenomenon. <2> On the other hand, each different position in which each individual is stimulates each different aspect of univeral characteristics that man possesses, and with some addition of individual variety(1-1/32) to that, so that it causes arbitrary behaviors-that can thus conflict one another. A social phenomenon of this aspect is a set of human phenomena that are confused and nonconsistent, and sometimes conflicting.

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A social phenomenon has both characteristics of two aspects <1><2> always. Each of those two aspects of a social phenomenon has different weight depently upon situations.(From now on, a society refers to that of narrow meaning;community, if no particular comments.)

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(1-1/21-6) As a social phenomenon is a phenomenon, it includes inertia. The inertial aspect of a social phenomenon is called "inertial social phenomenon". The direct root of the inertial social phenomenon is the inertial of will(1-16) that its members universially possess.

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(1-9/1) Every human phenomenon comes into being of only one, so each social factors as its part interacts anothers directly or indirectly.