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{{Short description|Branch of philosophy}}

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'''Social philosophy''' isexamines questions about the studyfoundations of questionssocial about[[institution]]s, [[social behavior|behavior]] and interpretations of, [[societyPower structure|power structures]], and socialinterpretations of [[institutionsociety]]s in terms of [[Value (ethics)|ethical values]] rather than empirical relations.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20philosophy | title=Definition of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY}}</ref> Social philosophers place new emphasis onemphasize understanding the social contexts for political, legal, moral, and cultural questions, and to the development of novel theoretical frameworks, from [[social ontology]] to [[ethics of care|care ethics]] to [[Cosmopolitanism|cosmopolitan]] theories of [[democracy]], [[natural law]], [[human rights]], gender equity and [[global justice]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14679833/homepage/ProductInformation.html|title=Overview - Journal of Social Philosophy - Wiley Online Library|website=onlinelibrary.wiley.com|doi=10.1111/(issn)1467<!-9833/homepage/productinformation|doi-broken none -date=2021-01-10>}}</ref>

==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 (polity)|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]].

TheSocial philosophy is broadly interdisciplinary, looking at all of [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], [[epistemology]], and [[philosophy of language]] andfrom a sociological perspective; [[Phenomenology (sociology)|phenomenological sociology]], [[social epistemology]] areand subfields[[sociology whichof overlaplanguage]] inrespectively.<ref>{{Cite significantweb ways|date=2023-12-14 with|title=Social socialPhilosophy |url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/philosophy/research/themes/social-philosophy |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=www.sheffield.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://socialphilosophy.yolasite.com/|title=Social Philosophy|publisher=Cavite State University Main Campus}}</ref>

==Relevant issues==

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Some topics dealt with by social philosophy are:▼

Some social philosophy is concerned with identity, and defining [[Social stratification|strata]] that categorize society, for example [[Race (human categorization)|race]] and [[gender]]. Other social philosophy examines [[Agency (philosophy)|agency]] and [[free will]], and whether people [[Socialization|socialized]] in a particular way are [[accountable]] for their actions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is social philosophy? - The University of Nottingham |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/nottingham-centre-for-social-philosophy/what-is-social-philosophy/what-is-social-philosophy.aspx |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=www.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref>

* [[Human agency|Agency]] and [[free will]]

It also looks at the concepts of [[property]], [[rights]], and [[authority]], examining actions in terms of both ethical values and their wider social effect; it applies [[situational ethics]] to broader political concepts.

Sociology of language considers communication in the context of social relations, for example [[Speech act|speech acts]] or [[Performative utterance|performative utterances]] are social actions in themselves.

▲SomeOther topicsrelevant dealtissues withconsidered by social philosophy are:

* The [[will to power]]

* [[Modernism]] and [[postmodernism]]▼

* [[Accountability]]

* [[Speech acts]]

* [[Situational ethics]]

▲* [[Modernism]] and [[postmodernism]]

* [[Individualism]]▼

* [[Crowd]]s

* [[Property]]

* [[Rights]]

* [[Authority]]

* [[Ideologies]]

* [[Cultural criticism]]

== Social philosophies ==

{{See also|List of political ideologies}}

* [[Communitarianism]]

* [[Conflict theories|Conflict theory]]

* [[Conservatism]]

* [[Critical theory]]

▲* [[Individualism]]

* [[Positivism]]

* [[Progressivism]]

* [[Structural functionalism]]

* [[Social constructionism]]

* [[Symbolic interactionism]]

==Social philosophers==

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A list of philosophers that have concerned themselves, although most of them not exclusively, with social philosophy:

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* [[Theodor Adorno]]

* [[Giorgio Agamben]]

* [[Hannah Arendt]]

* [[JeanAlain BaudrillardBadiou]]

* [[Jeremy Bentham]]▼

* [[Mikhail Bakunin]]

* [[Jean Baudrillard]]

* [[Walter Benjamin]]

▲* [[Jeremy Bentham]]

* [[Edmund Burke]]

* [[Judith Butler]]

* [[Thomas Carlyle]]

* [[Chanakya]]

* Rabbi [[Manis Friedman]]

* [[Cornelius Castoriadis]]

* [[Noam Chomsky]]

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* [[Sigmund Freud]]

* [[Erich Fromm]]

* [[Henry George]]▼

* [[Giovanni Gentile]]

▲* [[Henry George]]

* [[Erving Goffman]]

* [[Jürgen Habermas]]

* [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|G. W. F. Hegel]]

* [[Martin Heidegger]]

* [[Thomas Hobbes]]

* [[Max Horkheimer]]

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* [[Ibn Khaldun]]

* [[Peter Kropotkin]]

* [[Jacques Lacan]]

* [[R. D. Laing]]

* [[Henri Lefebvre]]

* [[Emmanuel Levinas]]

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* [[Georg Lukács]]

* [[Herbert Marcuse]]

* [[Everett Dean Martin]]

* [[Karl Marx]]

* [[Marshall McLuhan]]

* [[Terence McKenna]]

* [[John Stuart Mill]]

* [[Huey P. Newton]]

* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]

* [[Michael Oakeshott]]

* [[Antonie Pannekoek]]

* [[Plato]]

* [[FredKarl PochéPopper]]

* [[Karl Raimund Popper]]

* [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]]

* [[John Rawls]]

* [[Wilhelm Röpke]]

* [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]

* [[SheilaJohn RowbothamRuskin]]

* [[Bertrand Russell]]

* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]

* [[Alfred Schmidt (philosopher)|Alfred Schmidt]]

* [[Arthur Schopenhauer]]▼

* [[Roger Scruton]]

* [[Socrates]]

* [[Pitirim A. Sorokin]]

* [[Thomas Sowell]]

* [[Herbert Spencer]]

* [[Oswald Spengler]]

* [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]]

* [[ThiruvalluvarAlexis de Tocqueville]]

* [[Max Weber]]

* [[Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez]]

* [[John Zerzan]]

* [[Slavoj Žižek]]{{colend}}

▲* [[Arthur Schopenhauer]]

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==See also==

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* [[Sociological theory]]

* [[Sociology]]

* [[Critical theory]]

* [[Feminist theory]]

* [[Critical race theory]]

==References==