Social Philosophy
Publisher: Library of Philosophy
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Calcutta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Copyright date: 1962
Description: The book provides a systamatic, lucid and critical outline of basic problems ,methods and conclutions of social philosoiphy. It incorporates recent developments in social sciences and offers new insights into the basic issues of social philosophy.
The author has tried to interpret the various social phenomena from the standpoint of his philosophy of world teleology. He has defined society as a dynamic organization of purposive individuals. Each individual has the innate potentiality for raising psychic tides in other individuals. Objectivve social bonds are established between various members of society, if the latter are able to raise psychic tides amonst themselves frequently and relatively consistantly. The psychic tides, for instance ,which are raised between mother and child are subjective in their origin, but objective in their expressions; and once the o0bjetive relationship is established between mother and child through the linkage of psychic tides the former persists relatively permanently. According to the author if the radiation produced by a physical system is real and objective, then the psychic tide produced by a creative qappreciative person is equally real and objective. A creative personb is necessarily appreciative, and an appreciative person has the potentiality of creativity. A person is creative appreciative by virtue of his innate creative teleology. A society progresses culturally when the circuits between creativity  and appreciation are continuously being completed between the objective expressions of creative and appreciative persons. Stability of a society is due to the preponderance of appreciation over creativity, and cultural progress is due to0 preponderance of creative aqdvance over appreciation by creative appreciative persons. The authoh maintains that society itself has a purpose which is unique in its own way.

CONTENTS ; 1.NATURE OF SOCIAL PHILOPSOPHY 2. INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY 3. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS ;SOCIAL GROUPS, 4. SOCIAL PROGRESS ;-SOCIAL EVOLUTION, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT,SOCIAL PROGRESS, SOCIAL IDEALS     5. SOCIAL COHESION;-HERD SENTIMENT COMMON INTERESTS, RELIGION AS A COHESIVE FORCE, THE MARXIST INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION,THE ETHOS OF PEOPLE, THE SOCIAL SELF   6.SOCIAL DISORGANISATION ; AETOLOGY OF SOCIAL EVIL, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, PRENTIVE OR DETERRENT THEORY, REFORMATIVE THEORY, RETRIBUTIVE THEORY, SOCIAL PATHOLOGY
Notes: The various social phenomena are interpreted from standpoint of Philosophy of World Teleology