Social philosophy

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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.

[edit] Subdisciplines

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

[edit] 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 include:

• Socrates
• Plato
• Chanakya
• Confucius
• Thiruvalluvar
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke
• Jeremy Bentham
• John Stuart Mill
• Wilhelm-Friedrich Hegel
• Karl Marx
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Émile Durkheim
• Max Weber
• Sigmund Freud
• Carl Jung
• Theodor Adorno
• Georg Lukács
• Antonie Pannekoek
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Michel Foucault
• Noam Chomsky
• Cornelius Castoriadis
• Guy Debord
• Terry Eagleton
• Susan Sontag

[edit] See also

• List of basic sociology topics
• Sociology
• Sociological paradigms
• Social simulation
• Social theory

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