Social Choice Phenomenology — A Critique of Sartre (Part 25)

In the previous section, we discussed wartime negotiations between states. As an element of the Fourth World, a state is itself an existent being. Consequently, it possesses numerous Super-Existences. At the same time, it acts and makes choices, even though these choices are formally made by the head of state and the cabinet. Once such a decision is made, however, it represents the choice of the state itself. In Cognitive System Phenomenology – A Critique of Husserl, I suggested that the concept of Super-Existence might be extended into other fields, making it possible to establish disciplines such as Super-Existential Family Phenomenology, Super-Existential Phenomenology of Love, Super-Existential Educational Phenomenology, Super-Existential Corporate Phenomenology, and Super-Existential State Phenomenology. Admittedly, these ideas may seem rather imaginative. Nevertheless, in this section I would like to continue along this line of thought. Since we introduced the notion of a state's Super-Existence in the previous discussion, we shall now explore the possibility of establishing a Super-Existential State Phenomenology.