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Social philosophy examines questions about the foundations of social institutions, behavior, power structures, and interpretations of society in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations. [1] Social philosophers emphasize understanding the social contexts for political, legal, moral and cultural questions, and the development of ...
A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity is a 2006 book by the philosopher Manuel DeLanda. The book is an attempt to loosely define a new ontology for use by social theorists — one that challenges the existing paradigm of meaningful social analyses being possible only on the level of either individuals (micro-reductionism) or "society as a whole" (macro-reductionism).
Sociology. Sociology of philosophy or philosophical sociology [1] is an academic discipline of both sociology and philosophy that seeks to understand the influence of philosophical thought upon society alongside societal influence upon philosophy. It seeks to understand the social conditions in which the intellectual activity and effects of ...
Origins of society. The origins of society — the evolutionary emergence of distinctively human social organization — is an important topic within evolutionary biology, anthropology, prehistory and palaeolithic archaeology. [1] [2] While little is known for certain, debates since Hobbes [3] and Rousseau [4] have returned again and again to ...
t. e. Philosophy ( φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual ...
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures ( German: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen) is a 1985 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author reconstructs and deals in depth with a number of philosophical approaches to the critique of modern reason and the Enlightenment "project" since ...
ISBN 0-415-10723-7. argues that contemporary definitions of culture fall into three possibilities or mixture of the following three: "a general process of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development". "a particular way of life, whether of a people, period, or a group". "the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic ...
In Physics II .1, Aristotle defines a nature as "a source or cause of being moved and of being at rest in that to which it belongs primarily". [1] In other words, a nature is the principle within a natural raw material that is the source of tendencies to change or rest in a particular way unless stopped. For example, a rock would fall unless ...