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Political philosophy
Overview
sub-discipline of philosophy and political science
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I do not know whether all my readers will see whither this suggested inquiry will lead us; but this I do know, if Emile returns from his travels, begun and continued with this end in view, without a full knowledge of questions of government, public morality, and political philosophy of every kind, we are greatly lacking, he in intelligence and I in judgment. The science of politics is and probably always will be…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
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Of the practical sciences, that one is nobler which is ordained to a further purpose, as political science is nobler than military science; for the good of the army is directed to the good of the State. But the purpose of this science, in so far as it is practical, is eternal bliss; to which as to an ultimate end the purposes of every practical science are directed.
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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The historical circumstances of his nation as well as the personal experiences of his life help to determine his horizon, even in the effort to discover the hidden pulse and movement of the social organism. This is specially obvious in political philosophy. The conception of ethics and politics which is presented in the _Encyclopaedia_ was in 1820 produced with more detail as the _Grundlinien der Philosophie des…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophers who discussed Political philosophy
- Edmund Burke
- Roger Scruton
- Leszek Kołakowski
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Francisco Suárez
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Keiji Nishitani
- Callicles
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Robert L. Holmes
- John Rawls
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Carlyle
- Hans Kelsen
- Antony Flew
- Norwood Russell Hanson
- Norberto Bobbio
- Sidney Hook
- William Godwin
- Shelly Kagan
- Immanuel Kant
- Judith Butler
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Murray Bookchin
Related ideas
- Edmund Burke
- Egalitarianism
- Empiricism
- Anarcho-capitalism
- Fascism
- African philosophy
- Instrumental and intrinsic value
- Feminism
- French Revolution
- Avicenna
- Federalism
- Afterlife
- Anarchism
- Government
- Outline of ancient India
- John Rawls
- Distributive justice
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Technocracy
- Permission (philosophy)
- Hinduism
- Philosophy
- Traditionalist conservatism
- Expansionism
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Charismatic authority
- Civic virtue
- Copyright
- Election
- Equality of outcome
- Expansionism
- Extremism
- Human sexuality
- Intellectual property
- License
- Peasant
- Perfectionism (philosophy)
- Sangha
- Theocracy
- Third Way
- Unitary state
- Rational-legal authority
- Territory
- Bellum omnium contra omnes
- Monopoly on violence
- Anarchy
- Swaraj
- Anarchy (international relations)
- Communist revolution