Unger argues extensively against traditional non-utilitarian responses to trolley problems.

Unger therefore argues that different responses to these sorts of problems are based more on psychology than ethics – in this new case, he says, the only important difference is that the man in the yard does not seem particularly " involved ".

In Social Theory: Its Situation and its Task, Unger argues that classical social theory was born proclaiming that society is made and imagined and not the expression of an underlying natural order, but at the same time its capacity was checked by the equally prevalent ambition to create law-like explanations of history and social development.

In response, Unger argues that one need not choose between revolution and humanization because societies are not " indivisible systems, standing or falling together " and thus we can bring about their piecemeal reconstruction.

In response, Unger argues that some structures are more inviting to change than others, and that one is mistaken to pessimistically believe in a universal maxim that all structures are unchangeable enemies to our transcendent spirits.

Unger argues that there are three ideas about work in society: work as honorable calling, work as instrumental, and work as transformative vocation.

" Unger argues that to conceive of one's workaday activity in this manner is to " view the social world as utterly oppressive or alien.

The final conception of work – one that Unger argues is turning things inside out – connects self-fulfillment and transformation.

" Unger argues that the idea of transformative vocation is an insurgent, growing ideas in the world, waging " a largely mute spiritual struggle against the other two notions of work.

Philosopher and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger has more recently attempted to revise classical social theory by exploring how things fit together, rather than to provide an all encompassing single explanation of a universal reality.

It has recently been appropriated by philosopher and social theorist Roberto Mangabeira Unger to comment on human nature and to explain how human beings innovate and resist within confining social contexts.

Roberto Unger appropriated Keats ' term in order to explain resistance to rigid social divisions and hierarchies.

These forms are the basis of a social structure, and which Unger calls formative contexts.

In order to explain how we move from one formative context to another without the conventional social theory constraints of historical necessity ( e. g. feudalism to capitalism ), and to do so while remaining true to the key insight of individual human empowerment and anti-necessitarian social thought, Unger recognized that there are an infinite number of ways of resisting social and institutional constraints, which can lead to an infinite number of outcomes.

Calling his efforts " super-theory ," Unger has thus sought to develop a comprehensive view of history and society, but to do so without subsuming deep structure analysis under an indivisible and repeatable type of social organization or with recourse to lawlike constraints and tendencies.

Unger begins by formulating the theory of false necessity, which claims that social worlds are the artifact of human endeavors.

These forms are the basis of a social structure, which Unger calls formative context.

In order to explain how we move from one formative context to another without the conventional social theory constraints of historical necessity ( e. g. feudalism to capitalism ), and to do so while remaining true to the key insight of individual human empowerment and anti-necessitarian social thought, Unger recognized that there are an infinite number of ways of resisting social and institutional constraints, which can lead to an infinite number of outcomes.

In his work on false necessity — or anti-necessitarian social theory — Unger recognizes the constraints of structure and its molding influence upon the individual, but at the same time finds the individual able to resist, deny, and transcend their context.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger ( born March 24, 1947 ) is a philosopher, social and legal theorist, and a Brazilian politician.

Doing so, he holds, will enable the realization of the full extent of human potential and, as he puts it, “ make us more god-like .” For Unger, the market, the state, and human social organization should not be set in predetermined institutional arrangements, but need to be left open to experimentation and revision according to what works for the project of the empowerment of humanity.

Although appointed to the faculty of law, Unger often taught courses in social theory and philosophy.

Throughout much of the 1980s, Unger worked on his magnum opus, Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory, a three volume work on social change and alternative rivaling that of Marx.

Unger has devoted much of the following decades to further elaborating on the insights developed in Politics through a working out of the political and social alternatives.

Unger began by formulating the theory of false necessity, which claims that social worlds are the artifact of human endeavors.

Unger has addressed these criticisms by developing a full theory of historical process in which negative capability is employed.

Realism remains influential, and a wide spectrum of jurisprudential schools today have either taken its premises to greater extremes, such as critical legal studies ( scholars such as Duncan Kennedy and Roberto Unger ), feminist legal theory, and critical race theory, particularly at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and Yale Law School, or more moderately, such as law and economics ( scholars such as Richard Posner at the University of Chicago and Richard Epstein at University of Chicago and New York University School of Law ) and law and society ( scholars such as Marc Galanter and Stewart Macaulay at the University of Wisconsin Law School ).

Social theory for Unger has failed in its task to take the idea of society as artifact to the hilt.

In order to explain how we move from one formative context to another without the conventional social theory constraints of historical necessity ( e. g. feudalism to capitalism ), and to do so while remaining true to the key insight of individual human empowerment and anti-necessitarian social thought, Unger recognized that there are an infinite number of ways of resisting social and institutional constraints, which can lead to an infinite number of outcomes.

In the third volume of Politics, Placticity into Power: Comparative-historical studies on the institutional conditions of economic and military success, Unger provides the historical materials he drew on to formulate the theory developed in first two volumes.

During his time there, Doppler, along with Franz Unger, played an influential role in the development of young Gregor Mendel, known as the founding father of genetics, who was a student at the University of Vienna from 1851 to 1853.

He was portrayed by Jan Unger in the 2000 Sci Fi Channel Dune miniseries.

Chaim Rickover was born to Abraham Rickover and Rachel ( née Unger ) Rickover, a Jewish family in Maków Mazowiecki of Poland, at that time ruled by the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II.

Henderson was sent to the Toronto Maple Leafs, along with Norm Ullman and Floyd Smith in exchange for Frank Mahovlich, Garry Unger and Pete Stemkowski.

Leif also played the role of Leonard Unger, the son of Felix Unger ( Tony Randall ), on the ABC series The Odd Couple, a part that previously was played by Willie Aames.

The bar dates from c. 2650 BC and Unger claimed it was used as a measurement standard.

Unger was the first of three ambassadors to control the American air assets supplied to the RLAF ; the others were his successors, William H. Sullivan and G. McMurtrie Godley.

The Northwest Angle was noted by host Brian Unger in the History Channel documentary How the States Got Their Shapes, as a " blip on the top of Minnesota that was the result of treaties long ago ".

In 2008 part of the Keir Collection of Edmund de Unger, formerly housed in his home in Ham, Surrey, was placed on long-term loan to the Museum for an initial period of 15 years.

In 1971, he originated the role of Leonard Unger, the son of Felix Unger ( Tony Randall ), on the ABC-TV series The Odd Couple, a part that was later played by Leif Garrett.

The square was created by Johann Arnold Nering at the end of the seventeenth century as the Linden-Markt and reconstructed by Georg Christian Unger in 1773.

" Actor Peter Dinklage was cast to play Simon Bar Sinister, while Alex Neuberger was cast to play Underdog's human companion Jack Unger.

One view holds that it stayed independent and with Unger as a missionary bishop directly subordinate to the pope while another one holds that it was attached to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the nearest German ecclesiastical province.

On March 3, 1968, in a blockbuster trade, Mahovlich was sent to the Detroit Red Wings with Pete Stemkowski, Garry Unger and the rights to Carl Brewer for Norm Ullman, Paul Henderson, Floyd Smith and Doug Barrie.

The film Sylvia Scarlett starred Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, and Edmund Gwenn ; it was the comic story of a widower, his daughter Sylvia who disguises herself as a boy, and a con man ; Collier's collaborators on the script were Gladys Unger and Mortimer Offner.

He would often chide Johnny Carson for his chain-smoking, and was generally fastidious and fussy, much like his Felix Unger characterization.

Unger ran outside in the still-pouring rain to assess the situation and saw that the water was nearly cresting the dam.

Unger quickly assembled a group of men to try to save the face of the dam by trying to unclog the spillway which was blocked by the broken fish trap and debris caused by the swollen waterline.

Unger, Parke, and the rest of the men continued working to save the face of the dam until they were exhausted ; they abandoned their efforts at around 1: 30 p. m. when they felt that their work was futile and the dam would collapse at any minute.