Abstract

The triadic framework is used to explain how American society, for example, is understood in terms of its economic activity, its social activity and its political activity. Then, on the more detailed level of triadic thinking, the economic sphere is explained in terms of consumption activity, production activity and market exchange that define the nature of that activity. The social sphere is explained within the triadic formwork by living standards, associative arrangements and the community's aesthetic life. The third political sphere is explained essentially in terms of Montesquieu's (1952/1748) powers of the executive, the judiciary and the legislature.