The Idea of a Social Philosophy

In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 419-435

Abstract

Considers the disciplinary range, boundaries, & central concerns of social philosophy. Political philosophy, moral philosophy, & legal philosophy comprise the traditional territories of our conceptual map that have correlatives in the various social sciences; each discipline & subdiscipline is (to varying degrees) concerned with society, social action, & social actors. The notion of a social philosophy, however, is not superfluous or redundant, for it is predicated on the centrality of the social distinct from the political & moral, & with a focus on the modern, the normative, & the Hegelian principle of subjective freedom. K. Coddon