
What is Political Philosophy?
Political philosophy is located at the intersection between ethics, the philosophy of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. It tries to integrate all of these disciplines and it examines the philosophical foundations of human society: What is the relationship between the human being and society, what are the basic values that we should strive to implement in communal life, or what creates cohesiveness and order in a society? Is it religion, a shared political ideology, or history, culture and language? How should the decision-making process and the leadership be organized? What is the nature of the political? How do the social links that connect and disconnect us get formatted?
In order to answer some of these questions, political philosophy examines and defines basic concepts like freedom, equality, democracy, power, justice, and the State.
- Are we awake now?
- Aristotle: Politics
- Bruno Latour: The Social as Association. 2004
- Carl Schmitt on Political Power
- China: Charter 08
- Cicero on Just War
- Comments on Althusser
- Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Dialektik der Aufklärung
- Emmanuel Levinas on Peace
- Erich Fromm: Mechanisms of Escape from Freedom (1942)
- Erich Fromm: Territorialism and Dominance (1973)
- Europe: What now?
- Fanon: Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom
- Fanon: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness. 1961
- Federalist Papers No.10 The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
- Feminism
- George Orwell: Politics and the English Language.
- George Washington’s Farewell Address. 1796
- God bless America!
- Günter Gaus im Gespräch mit Hannah Arendt
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
- History of Human Rights
- History of Political Thought – Timeline
- In God we trust? Money, Debt, and Love.
- Interfaith Declaration: Code of Ethics on International Business for Christians, Muslims, and Jews (1994)
- Interview with Simone de Beauvoir, 1976
- Isaiah Berlin: The Question of Machiavelli. 1971.
- Jacques Maritain: Man and the State (1951)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Philosophy
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Discourse on Inequality
- Jeremy Bentham: Principles of Morals and Legislation. 1780
- John Locke
- John Locke: Second Treatise of Government. 1690
- John Stuart MILL: UTILITARIANISM (1863)
- Joseph Schumpeter: State Imperialism and Capitalism (1919)
- Judith Butler – Quotes
- Jürgen Habermas: postsecular world?
- Karl Marx
- Karl Marx: Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Kevin Kelly: Ten Rules for the Networking Economy.
- Levinas: Peace and Proximity
- Louis Althusser
- Louis Althusser – Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon
- Louis Althusser: Contradiction and Overdetermination
- Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
- Madness and Civilization, Revisited
- Martin Luther King: Letter from Birmingham Jail. 1963.
- Marx: Commodity Fetishism
- Marx: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
- Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
- Max Horkheimer: Feudal Lord, Customer, and Specialist. 1964
- Max Weber
- Max Weber – Quotes
- Max Weber: Science as Vocation
- Michel Foucault
- Michel Foucault: “What is Enlightenment?”
- Michel Foucault: Key Concepts
- Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization. 1961
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- On Cicero
- Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man under Socialism.
- Plato and Aristotle
- Plato: Laws. Book 1. Written in 360 B.C.E
- Politics as a Vocation
- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865)
- Rousseau – The Social Contract
- Rudi Dutschke – Revolution and History in 1967. A look back.
- Russia at the Crossroads
- Shelby Steele: White Supremacy
- Shrump I: Post-Democracy in America?
- Shrump II: Madness, Fascism, and Resistance.
- Simone de Beauvoir: On the Master-Slave Relation
- Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
- Slavoj Zizek – Quotes
- Spinoza – Tractatus Politicus. 1675
- Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority (1974)
- The Frankfurt School
- The Idea of Dialogue
- The Transformation of Money into Capital
- The Woman Identified Woman
- Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
- Thomas Hobbes: The Leviathan. 1651
- Three Perspectives on Political Theory
- Thucydides – Melian Dialog
- Thucydides: Pericles’ Funeral Oration
- Truth, Power, Self: Interview with Michel Foucault.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Walter Benjamin: On the Concept of History
- What are markets? Political and philosophical reflections.
- What does it mean to have rights?
- What is characteristic about Human Rights?
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