Social philosophy is considered the "mother of philosophy" because it studies the most fundamental laws influencing social behavior and change. It seeks to understand the root causes of social issues like crimes, inequality, and changes in institutions. Social philosophy also reflects on how science and technology impact society. It incorporates insights from other fields and defines important social values and concepts.
Social philosophy is considered the "mother of philosophy" because it studies the most fundamental laws influencing social behavior and change. It seeks to understand the root causes of social issues like crimes, inequality, and changes in institutions. Social philosophy also reflects on how science and technology impact society. It incorporates insights from other fields and defines important social values and concepts.
Social philosophy is considered the "mother of philosophy" because it studies the most fundamental laws influencing social behavior and change. It seeks to understand the root causes of social issues like crimes, inequality, and changes in institutions. Social philosophy also reflects on how science and technology impact society. It incorporates insights from other fields and defines important social values and concepts.
Social philosophy is considered the "mother of philosophy" because it studies the most fundamental laws influencing social behavior and change. It seeks to understand the root causes of social issues like crimes, inequality, and changes in institutions. Social philosophy also reflects on how science and technology impact society. It incorporates insights from other fields and defines important social values and concepts.
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The Principle of Social Philosophy as called the “mother of philosophy”
Social Philosophy transcends various conclusions (data) provided by other branches of
knowledge. It is the study of the most fundamental and general laws of social behavior and social change (most important kaya tinawag na mother of philosophy)
Main Idea:
Social Philosophy studies the most fundamental laws which influence social cohesion, social progress, social change and social disintegration. It seeks insight into the causes of social crimes, juvenile delinquency, child labor, honor killing, gender differentiation, injustice, and inequality. It tries to find out the root causes of social pathology and suggests the remedies for it. Social Philosophy seeks to discover and restore the social bonds that hold the mankind together. Social Philosophy reflects upon the impact of science and technology on human society and gives a comprehensive philosophy of civilization. It incorporates the conclusions of other sciences and gives their philosophical interpretation. Social Philosophy has axiological point of view. It defines the social values such as common good, happiness, peace, security, justice, freedom, excellence/beauty, punctuality and discipline. We live in globalizing world and society is becoming more and more inclusive. Social Philosophy is concerned with the problems of marginalization of certain sections of society all over the world on the basis of birth, education, skills, gender, age, profession and possessions. The traditional social institutions such as religion, family and marriage are undergoing radical changes. The social values need modification or redefinition to enhance the progress of individuals and groups. Social Philosophy tries to meet all the requirements to maintain social solidarity. It views the entire mankind as one family which has a unique kind of fraternity and commitment. The unity and the wholeness of such a family aim at the realization of love, compassion and justice for its members. The scope of Social Philosophy includes everything which has human and social significance. Why is Philosophy the mother of all knowledge? Philosophy is often regarded as the mother of all the sciences, because it was the pre-Socratic philosophers who first tried to study the nature of the world. They contributed a lot to the schools of ancient Greece that helped evolve science back then. Some of their contributions are Empedocles‘elements (fire, air, earth, water, and ether), Democritus‘ Atom theory, Thales‘ studies of space, substances, and the origin of everything (Cosmology). After them came the ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, who established Physics (dynamics), Zoology, and Logic. It is said that Avicenna (Ibn Sēna) was heavily influenced by Aristotle, who then influenced Ockham who influenced Newton; hence, the whole of modern physics. Ancient and midieval philosophers didn’t stop at science, they mainly concentrated on conscious, theology, knowledge itself, politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Each of these fields evolved into its own branch of knowledge that is still being studied today in schools and universities.
We looked previously at how philosophers started all the sciences. But how is it the mother of knowledge as one that contains them, and one that they all return to it?
Philosophy studies everything, from physics to mathematics, to ethics, law and politics, to psychology, sociology, and language. That is, aside from studying subjects that are specially philosophical, like how knowledge is obtained, what is knowledge, the existence of knowledge, is it possible to know, etc…
More importantly, philosophy studies perception which puts all other forms of knowledge on the edge, because every science strongly depends on it.
I believe that philosophy is the mother of all knowledge because it was the starting point of most of the sciences that we study today, and if it wasn’t for those ancient philosophers (and a lot of modern philosophers) then nothing would’ve been as it is today. Also, because philosophy, in my humble opinion, is the most important science, because there is no field of knowledge that truly discusses who we are from our points of view, and I see that as something that is truly essential; we are everything to ourselves, and we need to know what we are to ourselves in order to understand ourselves.
Philosophy, in constant repetition, opens new subjects to the sciences to discuss, and without philosophy or philosophical methods, we cannot reach new information. We can define from that philosophy as the method we use to acquire new formulated ideas. Experimentation done after is just to prove what is written on paper, and that is the best way to come up with new information. The theoretical way is the safest and wisest choice.
