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Approaches to Social Philosophy

S. Lourdunathan

1. Positivists Approach

True or False Analysis – Quantification leads to the understanding of the Social &

Cultural.

2. Phenomenological Approach - hermeneutical phenomenology

 Experience, and the meaning attributed to experience, are not immediately

observable and accessible to a true/false analysis and therefore lie outside the

boundaries of a positivist framework.

2.1: Husserl: Epistemological Approach Go-beyond the naturalistic

observation/positivistic mood, (transcended the distortions of history, culture and

society) (bracket them out) (‘intentionality’, ‘noesis’ and ‘noema’) and ‘see’ the

‘intersubjective natural world-about-me, with sense-things.

2.2. Heidegger: (Ontological Approach) – the question of Being transcending the

Representational and Calculative modes of being – as Dasein – identified with a

sense of transcendence and interpretativeness. De-to be Sein- being. Heidegger,

Being-in-the-world was always a Being-with-others-in-the world and meaning was

necessarily developed within a relationship or a community.

e.g. Caste Marriage – Economic Analysis – Standard of Money that is spent for

hospitality, say 50 lakhs. Need to go beyond ‘caste intersubjectivity’ towards the

‘social’.

3. Late Modern Orientations to Social Philosophy

3.1. Khunn: Falisficationism

3.2. Science as cultural and hence the ‘cultural’ has to be approached

interpretatively – Lyotard

4. What is Socio-Philosophical Approaches in India:

4.1. Return to the Past

4.2. Renew the Present

4.3. Radically interrogate the Past, Present towards the Future.

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 Madura College, UGC Seminar on Trends in Social Philosophy, 12-13, March 2013. [email protected]