The meaning of society
pp. 455-471
in: Dirk Baecker (ed), Schlüsselwerke der Systemtheorie, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstract
"The meaning of society" has a double meaning. On the one hand, it means that meaning in the sense of a horizon for observations is created through the operations of society. In traditional ontological metaphysics, it was God as the sole being not defined through distinctions that created meaning.