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Concept
Social philosophy
Summary
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. 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.
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.
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
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
Judith Butler
Thomas Carlyle
Chanakya
Rabbi Manis Friedman
Cornelius Castoriadis
Noam Chomsky
Confucius
Simone de Beauvoir
Guy Debord
Vincenzo Di Nicola
Émile Durkheim
Terry Eagleton
Friedrich Engels
Julius Evola
Michel Foucault
Sigmund Freud
Erich Fromm
Giovanni Gentile
Henry George
Erving Goffman
Jürgen Habermas
Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Martin Heidegger
Thomas Hobbes
Max Horkheimer
Ivan Illich
Carl Jung
Ibn Khaldun
Peter Kropotkin
Jacques Lacan
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