political philosophy

is not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy. It is an attempt to lead citizens from the political life to the philosophic life.

The adjective 'political' in 'political philosophy' designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment... from this point of view, I say, 'political philosophy' means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life. Leo Strauss

1s 2undamental problem is why men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation' Gilles Deleuze

is the study of that which establishes political activity and thereby dissolves. It involves archi-politics, para-politics, and meta-politics.

'Rancière has outlined three forms of political philosophy that establish a proper mode of political activity and thereby dissolve, in various ways, the conflict between politics and the police: archi-politics, para-politics, and meta-politics.' (Rancière 2000: 89-90). Rancière, Jacques. 2000. The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. Continuum: New York.

is a field that must grow out of a distinction between the natural and the moral order—that is, between existence before, and existence after, the formation of organized societies.

All political philosophy, Spinoza thinks, must grow out of a distinction between the natural and the moral order—that is, between existence before, and existence after, the formation of organized societies.

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political philosophy