BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Abstract

The present article tries to think the limits between Philosophy and Social Sciences, and that, although they are distinct knowledge, are much more intertwined than separated, due to its reflective and logical character on the themes that intriguing the humanity. A joint problem is the very character of what would underpin society. A joint problem is the very character of what would underpin society. This motivation comes from a particular example, which is to think of the existence of a superior and prior entity, capable of giving meaning to existence, but also of molding them, by its coercive power. The exercise is to think as Plotinus, in the third century, called the existence of this superior force of Intelligence (Noûs). And Durkheim, in the late nineteenth century, which marked the beginning of scientific sociology, called it Society. This exercise wants to demonstrate how the Social Sciences, having as reference Durkheim, uses of the Philosophy to explain the meaning of the life in society.