What is humanist political thought?

What Is “Original Enlightenment Thought”?

What is political?

l1lere is no widely agreed upon definition of what is political. A definition that seems fruitful is to hold that political processes concern bridging power differences with s0ciety with those within the state, bridges that carry inputs both from society to the state (e.g., the results of elections) and from the state to society (e.g., Presidential speeches; legislation). l1le political realm a...

What Is Political Economy?

How does politics affect economic outcomes? This question has been asked probably as long as people have been interested in economics itself. Ž From Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations in 1776 or perhaps the Physiocrats . even earlier until at least John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy in 1848, what we now call ‘‘economics’’ was in fact generally referred to as ‘‘political economy.’’ T...

Virtue in Machiavelli’s Political Thought

The interpretability of Machiavelli’s political thought relates, in the most part, to the concept of virtue and its dimensions. In Western thought, this concept has had continuity and has reached the Renaissance and Machiavelli’s times. In the Roman and Medieval tradition, philosophical, verbal, religious and even literary and historical approaches were dominant in the clarification and explana...

The Concept of “Political Legitimacy” in Shia Political Thought (With Focus on Imam Khomeini’s Political Thought)

Legitimacy is always considered an important concept among basic topics of political science; since it has been already posed as the prerequisite of acceptability for exercising of power in the societies through history. Accordingly, all of the political philosophies made efforts to establish an intellectual apparatus that enforces the fundamentals of governance, dealt to some extent with the i...