Social Philosophy
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 136: "I have already said what civil liberty is; with regard to equality, it is necessary..."
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Section 17: "He that, in the state of nature, would take away the freedom that belongs to..."
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Section 227: "In both the fore-mentioned cases, when either the legislative is changed, or the legislators act..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 235: "In place of governing the subjects in order to render them happy, despotism makes them..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 254: "When the Prince no longer administers the State in accordance with laws and usurps the..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 256: "When the State dissolves, the abuse of Government, whatever it might be, takes the common..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 57: "The impulsion of mere appetite is slavery, and obedience to the law one prescribes to..."
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Section 57: "Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation as the direction of..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 92: "Every malefactor, attacking the social right, becomes by his crimes a rebel and traitor to..."
- Jeremy Bentham, The Greatest Happiness of the Greatest Number, Section II. First Principles Enumerated — Human Nature 1: "For further proof, reference may be made to the general, indeed the all-comprehensive, principle of..."
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 philosophers emphasize the social contexts for political, legal, moral, and cultural questions.