TOWARDS A PHENOMENOLOGICALLY GROUNDED UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL THEORY. III. THE PROBLEM OF RELEVANCE

Abstract

The third part of the article aims to specify the phenomenological aspects of the problem of relevance. The paper focus upon four major areas of concern: investigation of basic concepts such as social reality, human action, and social interaction (I); investigation of the philophical roots of the problem by focusing reflectively on the perceptual field, and attempting to describe the primary locus of self-evidence (II); analyses of fundamental matters of political philosophy as state, community, society, individual (III); and finally, investigation of the relationship between the freedom and equality, and of various aspects of this fundamental relationship in contemporary Lithuanian society.