@ARTICLE{Kaczmarek_Janusz_Ontology_2021, author={Kaczmarek, Janusz}, number={No 4}, journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria}, pages={303-314}, howpublished={online}, year={2021}, publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN}, publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego}, abstract={The paper attempts to place John Rawls’s social theory in an ontological frame of ideas. Józef M. Bocheński’s theory of systems was chosen to describe social reality without prejudging its role in the adequate theory. By adopting this approach the author presents several issues one by one: the characteristics of political philosophy and its relation to the ontology of social reality, Bocheński’s systems theory, the analysis of the industrial enterprise as a model example of a heterogeneous, dynamic and organic system, and Rawls’s structure of society. All this is done in terms of systems theory. The resulting outcome provides, among other things, a formal definition of Rawls’s basic social structure expressed in the language of systems theory, and it supports the thesis that the synthetic entity responsible for social functioning, such as the state, is correlated with the principles of justice as proposed by Rawls.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Ontology of social being. John Rawls’s theory of justice and political liberalism in the light of Józef M. Bocheński’s theory of systems}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/121757/PDF-MASTER/2021-04-PFIL-19-Kaczmarek.pdf}, doi={10.24425/pfns.2021.138989}, keywords={J.M. Bocheński, liberalism, ontological foundations of political philosophy, ontological object, ontology of social being, political philosophy, principles of justice, J. Rawls, system}, }