Political philosophy 3800-FP24-M

The ontology of politics points to the foundations of philosophical knowledge about politics, models of political community such as: polis, civitas, state and systems: democracy, aristocracy, monarchy, republic, empire.
Political theology takes into account religiously founded models of power, such as theocracy or the metaphor of the political body embedded in medieval theology, it also takes into account the concept formulated by Carl Schmitt.
The main issues of political philosophy point to the political determinants and consequences of various models of rationality: theoretical and practical reason, along with their contemporary understanding.
Mastering space and people. As part of the political community, law and the philosophy of law develop, and with them models of mastering space and models of ownership - dominion and empire, and finally human rights, taking into account self-determination at the individual and collective level.
War and its basic concepts: realism and just war theory refer to peace as one of the main goals of the political community, considered by many philosophers (eg Hobbes) to be the most important.
Philosophical positions on time include the theory of eternal return, but also a linear approach to political time: the myth of beginning and destiny, the category of development and progress, progress in politics is often accompanied by the concept of revolution, which is opposed by conservatism.
The philosophical foundations of political science, in turn, point to the specificity of political knowledge (the category of raison d'état) and its affinity with other sciences, such as biology (biopolitics).
We will discuss these issues in future meetings.