Social Philosophy

Social philosophy is one of the most important aspects of philosophical knowledge. This knowledge is aimed at understanding the processes and conditions of human life in society. Being an integral component of philosophy as a whole, it possesses all the features characteristic of this science. Along with this, the region under consideration is also endowed with certain features that distinguish its subject and object of study.

Social philosophy, acting as a specific discipline, is engaged in the study of the universal and the whole. However, this desire manifests itself only in the framework of the study of human society. At the same time, it must be borne in mind that social philosophy also touches upon the regularities of universal being, which are manifested in a rather peculiar way in people's lives, and specific laws of development, which are absent, for example, in other spheres.

As a science, this area of knowledge develops its own categories (general concepts). With their use, social philosophy studies the essence of human being in society at all stages of its formation and development. To the most abstract forms of logic, expressions of social practice include such categories as "social consciousness," "attitude," "being," "culture," "activity," and so on. In these categories, the movement of thought to an adequate cognition of social reality is reflected, and also the development of universal properties of different activities of people. Thanks to these concepts, it becomes possible to identify and formulate laws and principles that have a certain significance for any sphere of life, to obtain evidence and objective knowledge about human activity. Categories of other sciences of social significance fix only certain, individual aspects and characteristics of social reality, while the concepts of social philosophy are in some way the stages of cognition of processes in general. In this regard, the role of the latter is the most significant.

Problems of social philosophy mainly consist in achieving objective truth, obtaining adequate knowledge and opportunities for its implementation and further development. Along with this, the discipline reflects development and functioning in a very abstract form. And in this sense, for social philosophy, a deliberate desire to exclude historical specifics is typical, since the actual value for discipline in the scientific plan has knowledge of reality that reflects it to some extent correctly, which, in turn, is repeatedly confirmed by reality itself.

The discipline in question is a doctrine that is subject to constant development. This is mainly due to the fact that there is a continuous analysis of the processes and phenomena of society. Thanks to this, the subject of discipline remains. Along with this, in social philosophy there is a constant discussion of the same seemingly questions; For the teaching is characterized by the absence of solutions, given once and for all. It should be said that the concepts by which a certain research field is limited is a method of revealing a certain subject-object relationship that is present in public life. This attitude undergoes constant changes: historical, spatial, temporary. In this connection, we constantly have to find new solutions to various questions: what is subjective, what is objective, what is real, and what is unreal. In this sense, not the same question is solved in a new way, and the questions are posed each time in a new way, in connection with which the search for new answers begins.