Social philosophy is the study of questions about social behavior and

interpretations of society and social institutions in terms of ethical values

rather than empirical relations.
Social philosophy is the study of social interactions and behavior between two
or more people. Social philosophy examines group dynamics and
organization, group identity and the role of individual feelings within them.
The two main elements of social philosophy are the society and the individual.
Ethics (via Latin ethica from the Ancient Greek
[] "moral philosophy", from the adjective of
thos "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the
study of values and customs of a person or group. It covers
the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and
wrong, good and evil, and responsibility. It is divided into
three primary areas: meta-ethics (the study of the concept
of ethics), normative ethics (the study of how to determine
ethical values), and applied ethics (the study of the use of
ethical values).

Social philosophy is the philosophical study of questions about

social behavior (typically, of humans). Social philosophy
addresses a wide range of subjects, from individual meanings to
legitimacy of laws, from the social contract to criteria for
revolution, from the functions of everyday actions to the effects
of science on culture, from changes in human demographics to
the collective order of a wasp's nest. Social philosophy attempts
to understand the patterns and nuances, changes and tendencies
of societies. It is a wide field with many subdisciplines.

There is often a considerable overlap between the questions

addressed by social philosophy and ethics or value theory. Other
forms of social philosophy include political philosophy and
philosophy of law, which are largely concerned with the societies
of state and government and their functioning. Social philosophy,
ethics, and political philosophy all share intimate connections with
other disciplines in the social sciences. In turn, the social sciences
themselves are of focal interest to the philosophy of social
science.

Political philosophy is the study of questions about the city,

government, politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law and the
enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why (or
even if) they are needed, what makes a government legitimate,
what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it
should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens
owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be
legitimately overthrownif ever. In a vernacular sense, the term
"political philosophy" often refers to a general view, or specific
ethic, political belief or attitude, about politics that does not
necessarily belong to the technical discipline of philosophy.

Political philosophy can also be understood by analysing it

through the perspectives of metaphysics, epistemology and
axiology thereby unearthing the ultimate reality side, the
knowledge or methodical side and the value aspects of politics.

Three central concerns of political philosophy have been the

political economy by which property rights are defined and access
to capital is regulated, the demands of justice in distribution and

punishment, and the rules of truth and evidence that determine

judgments in the law.