Social Philosophy 3800-FSP23-F

The aim of the lecture is to present classical and contemporary concepts of social philosophy. In the first part of the lecture we will reconstruct the problems connected with the concept of community, human nature and its influence on social life and the formation of individual-state relation (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas, Machiavelli, Hobbes). Then, the concepts constitutive for modernity - social contract, state of nature, law, property, freedom, democracy (e.g. Locke, Kant, Rousseau) will be analysed. In the second part, the modern model of state and society will be confronted with the consequences of historically progressive social modernization, revealing the problem of work, individualism, ideology, forms of consciousness, technology (Hegel, Marx, Frankfurt School). The course will close with a reference to theories which analyse the metaproblems of modernity - the problem of thinking, intersubjectivity, the actuality of the project of modernity, the status of language in building social community, etc. (e.g. Arendt, Habermas).