SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

'Social philosophy' is the philosophical study of questions about social behavior (typically, of humans). Social philosophy addresses a wide range of subjects, from individual meanings to legitimacy of laws, from the social contract to criteria for revolution, from the functions of everyday actions to the effects of science on culture, from changes in human demographics to the collective order of a wasp's nest.

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Subdisciplines

Relevant issues in social philosophy

Subdisciplines

Social Philosophy: the application of moral principles to the problems of freedom, equality, justice and the state.

Relevant issues in social philosophy

Some of the topics dealt with by social philosophy are:

★ Agency and free will

★ The will to power

★ Accountability

★ Speech acts

★ Situationism

★ Modernism and Postmodernism

★ individualism

★ crowds

★ property

★ rights

★ authority

★ free will

★ ideologies

★ cultural criticism
Social philosophers iclude:

★ Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

★ Socrates

★ Plato

★ Chanakya

★ Confucius

★ Thiruvalluvar

★ Thomas Hobbes

★ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

★ John Locke

★ Karl Marx

★ Mikhail Bakunin

★ Émile Durkheim

★ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

★ Max Weber

★ Georg Lukács

★ Vivekananda

★ Antonie Pannekoek

★ Noam Chomsky

★ Simone de Beauvoir

★ Catharine MacKinnon

★ Cornelius Castoriadis

★ Guy Debord

★ Terry Eagleton

★ John Ralston Saul

★ Spencer Heath

★ Martin Buber

★ Joseph Beuys