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	Kant's Social and Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Kant's political philosophy is a branch of practical philosophy, one-half of one of the broadest divisions in Kant's thought between practical and theoretical philosophy.
		Kant's practical philosophy and the categorical imperative that governs it were intended to form the basis not only of what is thought today to be ethics proper but also with everything that broadly speaking had to do with the deliberative human behavior.
		Hence a social contract is the rational justification of the state because state power is necessary for each individual to be guaranteed access to some property in order to realize their freedom.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/kant-social-political (8551 words)

	Social philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Social philosophy attempts to understand the patterns and nuances, changes and tendencies of societies.
		One form of social philosophy is political philosophy, which is largely concerned with the societies of state and government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_philosophy (172 words)

	Social philosophy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Social philosophy is the (additional info and facts about philosophical) philosophical study of interesting questions about social (Manner of acting or conducting yourself) behavior (typically, of (Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae) humans).
		One form of social philosophy is (additional info and facts about political philosophy) political philosophy, which is largely concerned with the societies of (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) state and (The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit) government.
		Social philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy all share intimate connections with other disciplines in the (The branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society) social sciences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/social_philosophy.htm (461 words)

	Social Contract Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Social Contract Theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement between them to form society.
		Locke’s arguments for the social contract, and for the right of citizens to revolt against their king were enormously influential on the democratic revolutions that followed, especially on Thomas Jefferson, and the founders of the United States.
		The normative social contract, argued for by Rousseau in The Social Contract (1762), is meant to respond to this sorry state of affairs and to remedy the social and moral ills that have been produced by the development of society.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/soc-cont.htm (9316 words)

	Society for Philosophy and Technology - Volume 2, numbers 3-4
		Social constructivist approaches in technology studies have recently gained the attention of philosophers of technology, as is shown by a number of publications (e.g., Mitcham, 1995; Feenberg and Hannay, 1995; Winner, 1991, 1994; Feenberg, 1992, 1995).
		The term "social constructivism" is sometimes used in a narrow sense, to refer to the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach that was outlined originally in Pinch and Bijker (1987) and Bijker (1987), and a number of related approaches, such as those of Collins (1985) and Woolgar (1991).
		Social (and environmental) impacts are still not a main concern of social constructivist studies, however, and their analyses of social consequences tend to be unconventional.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v2_n3n4html/brey.html (7415 words)

	Social sciences, philosophy of : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Compared with other areas of philosophy, the history of the philosophy of the social sciences is somewhat truncated, since it can only begin properly with the earliest attempts at social science, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, first in the Scottish Enlightenment and subsequently in Germany.
		A second way in which to gain an understanding of the philosophy of social science is through the study of the issues and problems that these writers, and their contemporary counterparts, address (see Social science, methodology of).
		In many ways, it is the most developed of all the social sciences, and this may be the reason why some of the best-defined controversies in the philosophy of social science arise from within it.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/R047#R047P4.13 (1577 words)

	Journal -- Social Philosophy & Policy
		Social Philosophy and Policy is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on the philosophical underpinnings of enduring social policy debates.
		While Social Philosophy and Policy is not primarily a journal of policy prescriptions, several contributions in each issue will typically connect theory with practice.
		Social Philosophy and Policy is published twice a year by Cambridge University Press.
	www.bgsu.edu /offices/sppc/journal.htm (466 words)

	Marcuse: From Philosophy to Social Theory
		The historical heritage of Hegel’s philosophy, for instance, did not pass to the ‘Hegelians’ (neither of the right nor of the left)-they were not the ones who kept alive the true content of this philosophy.
		His system brought philosophy to the threshold of its negation and thus constituted the sole link between the old and the new form of critical theory, between philosophy and social theory.
		The impact of the Hegelian philosophy upon social theory, and the specific function of modern social theory cannot be understood except from-the fully unfolded form of Hegel’s philosophy and its critical tendencies, as they went over to Marxian theory.
	www.marxists.org /reference/archive/marcuse/works/reason/marcuse2.htm (1829 words)

	Gentoo Linux -- The Philosophy of Gentoo
		The Gentoo philosophy is to allow this user to do what he or she wants to do, without getting in the way.
		The Gentoo philosophy, in a paragraph, is this.
		This is backwards, and contrary to the Gentoo philosophy.
	www.gentoo.org /main/en/philosophy.xml (810 words)

	Social Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Social epistemology is theoretically significant because of the central role of society in the knowledge-forming process.
		Social epistemology would identify and evaluate social processes by which epistemic subjects interact with other agents who exert causal influence on their beliefs.
		Thinking of the relationship between the rational and the social as one of opposition, it is not surprising to find Larry Laudan proposing an "arationality principle": "[T]he sociology of knowledge may step in to explain beliefs if and only if those beliefs cannot be explained in terms of their rational merits" (Laudan 1977: 202).
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/epistemology-social (11508 words)

	University of Helsinki - Philosophy
		Connected with these subfields of ethics are social and political philosophy as well as philosophy of law, which address such questions as the proper ethical standards for institutions - private as well as governmental - and the foundations and constitutive principles of democracy.
		This subfield is directly connected with the social sciences, which address the empirical side of the concepts whose structure and logic is addressed by the philosophy of action.
		The nature of group action and socially shared intentions, particularly the kind essential for cooperation, is a related concern of the philosophy of social science.
	www.helsinki.fi /filosofia/esocial.htm (882 words)

	Ananda Marga philosophy: spiritual and social
		The philosophy of Ananda Marga covers both the spiritual and the social, and combines the two in a unique synthesis of universal vision:
		The spiritual philosophy of Ananda Marga recognizes that God is one, and that the universe is the creation of His mental thought-waves.
		Thus it is said: "Brahma is the absolute truth, and the universe is also truth, but relative." The diversities of this universe are the transitory transformations of part of His infinite cosmic "body" in a never-ending flow.
	www.anandamarga.org /philosophy.htm (215 words)

	Social Philosophy Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
		Leisure would be increased and so all people would have the time and freedom to pursue interests beyond their economic needs.
		Each human being would be able to reach their full stature through their natural gifts, through culture or whatever social pursuits they might desire.
		In such freedom crime would fall to a minimum and full human health, physically, mentally and spiritually would be raised, since the causes of most ills would be removed.
	www.schalkenbach.org /Social-Philosophy.html (1064 words)

	Social Philosophy Today
		Social Philosophy Today is an annual peer-reviewed forum for the philosophical discussion of contemporary social issues.
		This collection includes the best papers presented at the 18th International Social Philosophy Conference in 2001, which invited critical reflection on problems of truth and objectivity in social ethics.
		Also included is theoretical work on the nature of social identity, problems of essentialism and identity politics, and the key social ingredients in human dignity—mutual recognition, trust, and self-respect.
	www.pdcnet.org /spt.html (2363 words)

	Philosophy - MoodleDocs
		The design and development of Moodle is guided by a particular philosophy of learning, a way of thinking that you may see referred to in shorthand as a "social constructionist pedagogy".
		This extends the above ideas into a social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings.
		This page was last modified 22:06, 25 December 2006.
	docs.moodle.org /en/Philosophy (758 words)

	SAGE Publications - Philosophy & Social Criticism
		Philosophy & Social Criticism was established nearly thirty years ago to bring together articles which foster this attitude.
		Philosophy & Social Criticism has been at the forefront of contemporary academic scholarship and over the years has provided a focal point for major international debates and theoretical developments.
		Philosophy & Social Criticism is truly interdisciplinary, offering a critical viewpoint on areas such as: · Continental and American philosophy · ethics ·; politics · social theory · critique of science ·; political philosophy · sociology · legal thought · hermeneutics · literary theory · postmodernism ·; cultural critique · socio-economic thought
	www.sagepub.co.uk /journal.aspx?pid=105730 (438 words)

	Sorokin - The Work - Social Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a work on the history of sociological theories, Sorokin's "integralist" philosophy can be discussed only in a peripheral way, even though it un- doubtedly loomed very large among Sorokin's preoccupations, especially in the last third of his life.
		All of Sorokin's tracts for the times that deal with his philosophy are im- bued with a pervasive distaste, one may even say hatred, for modern urban culture and all that it stands for.
		Yet, instilled as he was by a philosophy of history that rested on the notion of cyclical fluctuations in human affairs, he seems never to have doubted that the collapse of Western Sensate culture would be followed in its turn by a rebirth under different stars.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Sorokin/SOROKW5.HTML (415 words)

	Philosophy of Social Science [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The philosophy of the social sciences may include discussions of methodological, epistemological, metaphysical and logical issues in psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and related domains.
		Behaviorism in psychology and the social sciences is but one attempt to develop a science of human beings in the sense of 'science' appropriate to physics etc. Many have come to view it as a failure (for the kinds of reasons just mentioned and other reasons as well).
		Thus social science (including anthropology, social psychology, history) could be "scientific." We must simply avoid explanation at the individual level, since explanations of individual actions might still get mired in the kinds of problems afflicting FL and BL.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/socscien.htm (10980 words)

	CU Philosophy - Center for Values and Social Policy
		The Center for Values and Social Policy was founded in 1980 in order to bring the resources of philosophical analysis to bear on matters of social philosophy.
		Center graduate courses include Philosophy and Social Policy, Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Bioethics and Health Policy and Professional Ethics.
		Philosophy in Cyberspace's directory of philosophical organizations and societies.
	www.colorado.edu /philosophy/center.html (490 words)

	Evolution and Philosophy: Social Darwinism
		Another such view is "Social Darwinism", which holds that social policy should allow the weak and unfit to fail and die, and that this is not only good policy but morally right.
		The real source of Social Darwinism is Herbert Spencer and the tradition going back to Hobbes via Malthus, not Darwin's own writings, though Darwin gained some inspiration on the effects of population growth from Malthus.
		The claims made by Social Darwinists and their heirs suffer from the ethical fallacy known as "the naturalistic fallacy" (no connection to naturalism in explanations and the study of knowledge mentioned above).
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/evolphil/social.html (457 words)

	Philosophy Program - Major in Ethics and Social Philosophy
		Gain a strong foundation in philosophy with our 36 credit major while maximizing the flexibility to pursue your own interests in philosophy, and in allied fields.
		Students who receive the Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethics and Social Philosophy will have a strong background in the traditions of Western philosophy (12 credits) while focusing their studies on ethical issues.
		Students will consult with their advisor to select the remaining 24 credits from among courses in environmental ethics, business ethics, social and political philosophy, ethics and animals, and ethical theory.
	www.plattsburgh.edu /academics/philosophy/majorethics.php (292 words)

	spring 03 newsletter
		To order volumes of Social Philosophy Today, contact Pam Swope at 800-444-2419, 434-220-3300, order@pdcnet.org, or go to the Philosophy Documentation Center web pabe for the series: http://www.pdcnet.org/spt.html.
		The field is to be construed broadly, to include social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of social science, and social ethics.
		Excluded are anthologies, historical studies, works on ethics that lack a distinctly social component as well as works on a social topic that lack a substantial philosophical component.
	www.mcla.edu /Academics/Majors__Departments/Philosophy/sspweb (1696 words)

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