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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