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In Plato's Republic, the character of Socrates is highly critical of democracy and instead proposes, as an ideal political state, a hierarchal system of three classes: philosopher-kings or guardians who make the decisions, soldiers or "auxiliaries" who protect the society, and producers who create goods and do other work. [1]
History of Political Philosophy is a textbook edited by American political philosophers Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. The book is intended primarily to introduce undergraduate students of political science to political philosophy. It is currently in its third edition.
The idea of a classless and stateless society based on communal ownership of property and wealth also stretches far back in Western thought long before The Communist Manifesto. There are scholars who have traced communist ideas back to ancient times, particularly in the work of Pythagoras and Plato .
Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, [1] but it has also played a major part in political science, within which a strong focus has historically been placed on both the history of political thought and contemporary political theory (from normative political theory to various critical approaches).
Marxism comprised a theory of history (historical materialism), a critique of political economy, as well as a political, and philosophical theory. In the Manifesto of the Communist Party , written in 1848 just days before the outbreak of the revolutions of 1848, Marx and Engels wrote, "The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the ...
Pew Research Center political typology; Philanthropreneur; Philanthropy; Philip Pettit; Philosophical anarchism; Philosophy of economics; Philosophy of history; Philosophy of social science; Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard; Pierre-André Taguieff; Pierre Bourdieu; Pirate utopia; Planned economy; Plato; Political argument; Political ...
Plato had taught us that the truth was not present within the society and in public affairs, but in eternal ideas, as demonstrated in the allegory of the cave. On the contrary, Marx thought that the "truth is not outside the affairs of men and their common world but precisely in them." The end of Platonic and Aristotelean tradition of ...
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics; The Inclusion of the Other; Individualism Old and New; Interpretation and Social Criticism; An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory; An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital