What kind of thing must human society be if it is vulnerable to falling ill? Examining Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim (Cambridge UP, 2023) by Frederick Neuhouser

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Social pathology, social wrongs, functionalism, collective intentionality, ethical life, artificiality

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