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The Human Community: An Ontological-Agonistic Perspective and New Categorial Interpretations – Family, Locality, Organization, Nation, State, Society

Stefaroi, Petru
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The present study proposes an incursion into the metaphysical depths of human association, offering an ontological-agonistic perspective on the foundations of the social realm. Transcending the classical visions of the rationalist or mechanist social contract, this work interprets the community as an agonic Mega-creature — an emergent organism whose vitality resides not in passive consensus, but in the permanent tension between the magmatic forces of Being and the formal structures of civilization. The central pillar of the analysis is the concept of the subterranean social dragon, a metaphor for the uncontrollable, drive-driven pulse that throbs beneath the fragile veneer of institutional order. This dragon represents the sum of vital energies, wills to power, and the abyssal collective memory that nourishes the social realm, yet becomes devouring during moments when official forms sclerose. Revolutions and wars are analyzed not as mere historical accidents, but as necessary eruptions of this dragon; they are moments in which life reclaims its primacy over ossified norms, devouring social structures, institutions, values, and cultures to force a new stage of ontification. The work explores the processuality of ontification, from the trauma of primary contact to historical transcendence, and reclassifies collective realities into distinct ontological categories: the Family (the cell of agonic blood), the Locality (the space of proximity collision), the Organization (the instrument of magmatic efficiency), the Nation (the symbolic face of destiny), the State (the sovereign mask of order), and Society (the ultimate horizon of agonic integration). The objective of this endeavor is to reclaim the ontological dignity of the community in an era of spiritual desertification and bureaucratic neutralization.
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