Philosophy:Social philosophy
Social philosophy examines questions about the foundations of social institutions, social behavior, and interpretations of society in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations.[1] Social philosophers emphasize understanding the social contexts for political, legal, moral and cultural questions, and the development of novel theoretical frameworks, from social ontology to care ethics to cosmopolitan theories of democracy, natural law, human rights, gender equity and global justice.[2]
Subdisciplines
There is often a considerable overlap between the questions addressed by social philosophy and ethics or value theory. Other forms of social philosophy include political philosophy and jurisprudence, which are largely concerned with the societies of state and government and their functioning.
Social philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy all share intimate connections with other disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. In turn, the social sciences themselves are of focal interest to the philosophy of social science.
The philosophy of language and social epistemology are subfields which overlap in significant ways with social philosophy.[3]
Relevant issues
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Some topics dealt with by social philosophy are:
- Agency and free will
- The will to power
- Accountability
- Speech acts
- Situational ethics
- Modernism and postmodernism
- Individualism
- Identity
- Property
- Rights
- Authority
- Ideologies
- Cultural criticism
Social philosophers
A list of philosophers that have concerned themselves, although most of them not exclusively, with social philosophy:
- Theodor Adorno
- Giorgio Agamben
- Hannah Arendt
- Alain Badiou
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Jean Baudrillard
- Walter Benjamin
- Jeremy Bentham
- Edmund Burke
- Judith Butler
- Thomas Carlyle
- Chanakya
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Noam Chomsky
- Confucius
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Guy Debord
- Émile Durkheim
- Terry Eagleton
- Friedrich Engels
- Julius Evola
- Michel Foucault
- Sigmund Freud
- Erich Fromm
- Giovanni Gentile
- Henry George
- Erving Goffman
- Jürgen Habermas
- G. W. F. Hegel
- Martin Heidegger
- Thomas Hobbes
- Max Horkheimer
- Ivan Illich
- Carl Jung
- Ibn Khaldun
- Peter Kropotkin
- Jacques Lacan
- R. D. Laing
- Henri Lefebvre
- Emmanuel Levinas
- John Locke
- Georg Lukács
- Herbert Marcuse
- Karl Marx
- Marshall McLuhan
- John Stuart Mill
- Huey P. Newton
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Michael Oakeshott
- Antonie Pannekoek
- Plato
- Karl Popper
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- John Rawls
- Wilhelm Röpke
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Ruskin
- Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Alfred Schmidt
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Roger Scruton
- Socrates
- Pitirim A. Sorokin
- Thomas Sowell
- Herbert Spencer
- Oswald Spengler
- Charles Taylor
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Max Weber
- John Zerzan
- Slavoj Žižek
See also
References
- ↑ "Definition of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY". http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20philosophy.
- ↑ Overview - Journal of Social Philosophy - Wiley Online Library. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14679833/homepage/ProductInformation.html.
- ↑ "Social Philosophy". Cavite State University Main Campus. http://socialphilosophy.yolasite.com/.
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