The Logical Structure of Human Civilization (John Searle)

The distinctive features of human civilization, as opposed to animal societies, are such things as money, property, marriage, government, etc. These are created and partly constituted by linguistic representations. For this reason, they all have logical, propositional structures. John Searle explains how they are created and maintained by certain sorts of speech acts and thus explains the nature of human civilization. This talk was the second of two talks given by John Searle in 2014 as part of the Patten lecture series. #Philosophy #Searle