Ontologia sociale qualitativa dei soggetti collettivi: varietà di vincoli, valori e forme di unità sociale

In my paper I apply phenomenology as eidetics and qualitative ontology to the field of social ontology and I provide an analysis of qualitative social ontology focusing on collective subjects’ conditions of existence and identity. Thus, I distinguish between types of collective subjects that are qualitatively different, in virtue of both the diverse forms of in­tentionality, which bind and commit individuals to one another, and the various spheres of va­lues, which orient individuals’ living and acting within collectives. I show that the different types of collectives are characterized by various degrees of social unity and embed several meanings of “complicity”.