Exploring Perspectives on Socialist and Alternative Thinking: Critiques of Capitalism in Social Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.57125/FP.2023.09.30.04Keywords:
social philosophy, epistemological foundations, structural crisis, democratic goalsAbstract
This paper is devoted to the study of the critique of capitalism in the context of social philosophy using modern approaches. The aim is to identify the essence of the critique of capitalism, as well as to analyse and compare different theoretical approaches to it. This study in the critique of capitalism used various methods, including philosophical analysis and critical theory, and conducted empirical research. The literature review included materials from databases such as WOS, Scopus, and Google Scholar. For the bibliometric analysis, 50 sources were used for the period 2018-2024. The results showed that the identification of the conflict between “critical sociology” and “sociology of criticism” helps to identify key aspects of critical thinking and its role in modern society. Scientific research into the prospects of socialist and alternative thinking in the context of criticism of capitalism in social philosophy is highly relevant and polemical. The paper reveals that the critical approaches of “critical sociology” and “sociology of criticism” differ in their methodologies and concepts of criticism. The former is aimed at analysing the causes and mechanisms of criticism of the social system through the epistemological gap, while the latter focuses on the formal and normative aspects of criticism of actors through the principle of symmetry. Thus, the new philosophy reveals the conflict between these approaches due to their differences in understanding the essence of criticism and its manifestation in public life. Based on the analysis of current research, it can be concluded that further research is needed to develop these concepts and resolve the conflict between them.
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