Social Philosophy

elective monographs

The aim of the lecture is to present classical and contemporary concepts of social philosophy. In the first part will be reconstructed the problems of classical social philosophy presented in historical order - from antiquity to modernity. The second part of the lecture will examine the key problems of social philosophy as an introduction to modernity (in the sense of Neuzeit). Referring to the notion of the “legitimacy of the modern age” (Blumenberg), the concepts of labour, intersubjectivity, social modernisation, ideology, freedom etc. will be analysed, followed by the introduction of theories that analyse the trajectories of the development of modernity as a philosophical project.

The aim of the lecture is to present classical and contemporary concepts of social philosophy. In the first part will be analysed problems related to the notion of community, human nature and its influence on social life and the formation of individual-state relations (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas, Machiavelli, Hobbes) will be reconstructed. The concepts constitutive of the social contract, the state of nature, law, property, freedom, democracy (e.g. Locke, Kant, Rousseau). In the second part, the modern model of the state and society will be confronted with the consequences of the historically progressive social modernisation, revealing the problem of labour, individualism, ideology, forms of consciousness, technology (Hegel, Marx, Frankfurt School). The course will close with references to theories that analyse the metaproblems of modernity - the problem of thought, intersubjectivity, the actuality of the project of modernity, the status of language for the construction of social community, etc. (Arendt, Habermas etc.).

Acquired knowledge:

- The class participant has a structured knowledge and understanding of the main directions and concepts within the research area of social philosophy (civil society, justice, freedom, recognition, work and social needs).

Acquired skills:

- the student interprets independently a philosophical text from the field of social philosophy, is able to creatively confront theses from various source texts

- the learner independently constructs and reconstructs arguments characteristic of social philosophy from the perspective of various theoretical positions

Acquired social competences:

- The class participant has a deepened awareness of the importance of humanistic reflection for the formation of social bonds.

Colloquium in the form of open questions.

Number of absences: 2 in a semester