A Philosophical Investigation of Mode of Existence of Social Realities

From the Perspective of Martyr Sadr and John Searle

Abstract

Mode of quiddity and existence of social realities has been ignored through out in the history of philosophy. Now, it has become the core of issue of the analytical philosophy since last four decades. Lack of knowledge about ontology of the society and social realities, will not support man to make useful structure of human society and civilization and solve critical social issues. That is because John Searle and martyr Sadr has given special attention toward this philosophical issue and have tried to expose the reality of the respectival social realities. Although man creates social realities in order to fulfill his various needs and desires yet sometime, he has to surrender against his creation like; politics, business, marriage, presidency and the existence of institutions and organizations. It is duty of philosophers to identify the mode of essence and existence of social realities in order to make better structure of human civilization. As the subject of philosophy is “existence absolute” and one of the goals of learning of philosophy is to separate real existence from unreal existence. The complexity of the current research becomes more severe when a person confronts with the social realities and observes that there are some accredited reality but their existence is a respectival and man-created but these realities seem more powerful than natural realities. Therefore; social philosophers should know about ontology and epistemology of social realities in order to make better structure of human society and civilization.