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- Because political life is characterized by deep and enduring conflict between rival interests and differing moral ideals, the core problems of political philosophy are the regulation of conflict and the conditions under which the members of society may thus be made subject to political authority.
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4 days ago · Political philosophy, branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion. The central problem of political philosophy is how to deploy or limit public power so as to maintain the survival and enhance the quality of human life.
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Political philosophy, or political theory, is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them.
- A. Liberalism
- B. Conservatism
- C. Socialism
- D. Anarchism
- E. Environmentalism
The term “liberalism” conveys two distinct positions in political philosophy, the one a pro-individualist theory of people and government, the second a pro-statist or what is better termed a “social democratic” conception. Students of political philosophy ought to be aware of the two schools of thought that reside under the same banner to avoid phi...
This approach plays down the unifying or omniscient implications of liberalism and its unifying rationalism and thus accords institutions or modes of behavior that have weathered the centuries a greater respect than liberals. Politically, philosophical conservatives are cautious in tampering with forms of political behavior and institutions and the...
The term “socialist” describes a broad range of ideas and proposals that are held together by a central overarching tenet: the central ownership and control of the means of production – either because central ownership is deemed more efficient and/or more moral. Secondly, socialists agree that capitalism (free-market conservativism or liberalism) i...
Anarchy stems from the Greek word, anarkos, meaning “without a chief.” Its political meaning is a social and political system without a state or more broadly a society that is characterized by a lack of any hierarchical or authoritarian structures. The general approach of the anarchist is to emphasize that the good life can only be lived without co...
Beyond the traditional ethical disputes concerning the good life for human beings and what political situation would best suit our development, others take up an alternative conception of humanity and its relationship with the living world. Broadly termed “environmentalist,” this political philosophy does not concern itself with the rights of peopl...
Jul 1, 1998 · 1. Political Science in General. Supplement: Characteristics and Problems of Aristotle’s Politics. 2. Aristotle’s View of Politics. Supplement: Presuppositions of Aristotle’s Politics. 3. General Theory of Constitutions and Citizenship. Supplement: Political Naturalism. 4. Study of Specific Constitutions. 5. Aristotle and Modern Politics.
Too often the domain of political philosophy is defined by a series of classic texts (running from Aristotle’s Politics, through Hobbes’s Leviathan, to Rawls’s A Theory of Justice) along with a conventional list of the topics to be addressed—the acceptable limits of state action, the basis of political obligation, the virtues of citizenship, and...
- CHARLES LARMORE
May 5, 2020 · What is political philosophy? What are its fundamental problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral philosophy? In this book, Charles Larmore redefines the distinctive aims of political philosophy, reformulating in this light the basis of a liberal understanding of politics.
Jun 18, 2012 · In addition to longstanding issues such as authority, equality, freedom, and democracy, there are articles on less classical topics such as race, historical injustice, deliberation, money and politics, global justice, and ideal and non-ideal theory.
