Norms, Values, Society: Phenomenological and Ontological Approaches

The current issue of "Phenomenology and Mind", "Norms, Values, Society: Phenomenological and Ontological Approaches" moves from an hypothesis: social reality is characterized by different levels of life - non-institutional level of life, institutional level of life, ethical-political level of life - each one characterized by its own eidetic laws, but intrinsically linked with the others: «varieties of normativity» do exist as much as their corresponding «varieties of goodness». Contributions that are collected here give voice to an authentic phenomenological spirit, in both its analytic (in the sense of conceptual clarity and of the attention for formal logic and ontology) and synthetic (in the sense of openness to the best of the philosophical traditions, including the contemporary intellectual debates and the material or regional ontologies).