On Social Truth

This article is a philosophical questioning on how people's social cognition reaches to the truth. Human being need further to reveal their own authentic being, and cognize the real existence, when they tend toward the more modern society, the more civilization. It is the symbol that human being cognize itself more deeply, but also the reflection of the important Significance on the research of the social truth that the social problems highlight in Contemporary.Truth as a unique way of human existence, is about the probing and questioning on human authentic being that human being settle their own root down, and but also the one core of philosophical study. In each period and each field of philosophical study, most of people consciously impenetrate the concerning deeply about the existence and nature of human being and things, and deliberately study the issue of truth. Especially, after the modern philosophy turned to epistemology, the issues of truth became the core theme of philosophical study. The Social truth as a branch of the issue of truth is the way of human social existence, and but also the thought basis and theoretical foundation of that they practice effectively. The developing logic of human society antecedently implies the true cognition of the social life, human authentic being form the ontological foundation of the social truth in practice, It precipitates directly the formation of social truth which people reveal and comprehend the process and the nature and laws of the social life in practice. Therefore, the social truth is not vested and off-the-peg and external things, and also not the subjective and psychological things that people found out at random, but is the forming process of that human being as Subject involve and create in practice. Consequently, the research viewpoints and methods of the social truth is on the basis of human social and historical being, and the dialectic development of human society is the main line to it. It sees about the process of which human being probed and questioned the social truth, the nature, theoretical basis, the practical formation and the test methods of the social truth, sketches out the overall outline of that the social truth, and reveals the possibility and reality of the social truth study.We study the social truth from the historical and social background, illuminate the necessity of the social truth study, and put forward the research methods of the subject which based on the essential characteristics of the social truth.The Social truth is brought forward in a different sense from the scientific truth, and in comparing and contrasting with the scientific truth, and in the layers of analysis from the truth to the scientific truth and to the social truth, the author sees about the connotation, the basic characteristics, the nature and the classification of the social truth, And then through analyzing the origins and landmark development stages of the issue of social truth in the philosophical history, we reveal the development trend of it. The theoretical research basis of the social truth is one keystone of this article. Through analyzing the forming and developing process of the social truth, the author sees about the relationship between the social truth and human transcended being nature and the aspiration of that human being probe the world certainty and quest for the social logos, and explains the logical necessity of which human being quest the social truth in practice. On this basis, through analyzing the relationship between the social truth and the scientific truth, the laws of society, social values and historical truth, we highlight essential connotation of the social truth. The analysis of the forming process of the social truth constitutes another important part of this article. Through seeing about human social existence, and analyzing relationship between the social truth and the material practice, social intercourse, language practice, we reveals the formation mechanism and conditions of the social truth in practice. And then, from the nature of the social truth and the contemporary leading views of the truth, we put forward the testing principles and methods of the social truth. Finally, the article suggests the theoretical and practical significance for the issue of the social truth which brings for China's socialist modernization, especially the value and significance for that we promote the Chinese characteristic socialism theoretical system to innovate constantly. Implementing scientific development conception and building a harmonious socialist society need establish a correct and reasonable view of the social truth, and then it promotes the Chinese characteristic socialist theory to develop and innovate.