Social philosophy is one of the most important aspects of philosophical knowledge. This knowledge is aimed at understanding the processes and conditions of human life in society. Being an integral component of philosophy as a whole, it has all the features characteristic of this science. Along with this, the area under consideration is endowed with certain features that distinguish its subject and object of study.
Social philosophy, acting as a specific discipline, is engaged in the study of the universal and the whole. However, this desire is manifested only in the framework of the study of human society. At the same time, it must be borne in mind that social philosophy also touches on the laws of the laws of universal existence, which manifest themselves quite peculiarly in people's lives, and the specific laws of development that are absent, for example, in other areas.
Being a science, this field of knowledge develops its own categories (general concepts). With their use, social philosophy studies the essence of human being in society at all stages of its formation and development. The most abstract forms of the logic of expression of social practice include such categories as “public consciousness”, “attitude”, “being”, “culture”, “activity” and so on. In these categories, the movement of thought to an adequate knowledge of social reality is reflected, and the universal properties of various human activities are also being developed. Thanks to these concepts, it becomes possible to identify and formulate laws and principles that have a certain value for any sphere of life, and to obtain evidence-based and objective knowledge about human activity. Categories of other sciences of social importance record only certain, separate aspects and characteristics of social reality, while the concepts of social philosophy are in some ways stages of cognition of processes in general. In this regard, the role of the latter is the most significant.
The problems of social philosophy mainly consist in achieving objective truth, obtaining adequate knowledge and the possibilities of its implementation and further development. At the same time, discipline reflects development and functioning in a very abstract form. And in this sense, social philosophy is characterized by a deliberate desire to exclude historical concreteness, since knowledge of reality is of real importance for discipline in science, reflecting it to one degree or another correctly, which, in turn, is repeatedly confirmed by reality itself.
The discipline in question is a doctrine subject to constant development. This is mainly due to the fact that there is a continuous analysis of the processes and phenomena of society. Thanks to this, the subject of discipline is preserved. Along with this, in social philosophy there is a constant discussion of the same, it would seem, issues; learning is characterized by the absence of solutions given once and for all. It should be said that those concepts with the help of which a certain research field is limited are a method for identifying a specific subject-object relation always present in public life. This attitude is undergoing constant changes: historical, spatial, temporal. In this regard, constantly have to find new solutions to various issues: what is subjective, what is objective, what is real and what is unreal. In this sense, not one and the same question is being resolved in a new way, but the questions are posed in a new way each time, in connection with which the search for new answers begins.