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Political Philosophy

The branch of philosophy that asks how political power should be organized and justified: what makes a state legitimate, what justice requires of its institutions, and what obligations, if any, a citizen owes to the state in return. Plato's Republic proposed that a just city requires rule by philosophers who have grasped the Form of the Good, while Aristotle's Politics treated the city as a natural association aimed at the good life and classified constitutions by who rules and in whose interest. The social contract tradition, running through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, reframed legitimacy as something derived from the consent, real or hypothetical, of the governed, a move that shaped modern liberal and republican thought alike. The branch overlaps ethics at every point, since a theory of what the state owes its citizens depends on a prior theory of what people are owed.

Facts
Central Question
What makes political authority legitimate, and what, if anything, do individuals owe the state? 1
Key Debate
The justification of political authority: philosophical anarchists argue that no state possesses genuinely legitimate authority, because state power cannot secure authentic consent or moral obligation from every individual it governs, while other traditions hold that political authority can be justified through consent, mutual benefit, or the goods only a state can secure; Mohism's own case for a strong, meritocratic state against endemic warfare sits on the opposite end of this same question from philosophical anarchism. 2
Key Debate
Where sovereignty and legitimacy originate: Bodin locates it in an indivisible sovereign power, Hobbes in a covenant escaping a violent state of nature, Locke in natural rights the state exists to protect, Rousseau in the general will of a self-governing people, and Weber in the distinct grounds, traditional, charismatic or legal-rational, on which any authority is actually obeyed. 1
Disputed
Key Debate
Liberty versus equality: whether a just society must give priority to individual liberty against redistribution, as libertarians such as Robert Nozick argue, or whether liberty is only meaningful alongside a fair distribution of resources, as egalitarians such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin argue. 1
Robert Nozick's libertarian reply to John Rawls kept this dispute alive as the central fault line in twentieth and twenty first century political philosophy.
FAQs

Can any state's authority ever be genuinely legitimate?

Philosophical anarchists argue that no state can secure authentic consent or moral obligation from every person it governs, so no state's authority is genuinely legitimate, while other traditions hold that authority can be justified through consent, mutual benefit, or goods only a state can secure.

Philosophical anarchists argue that no state possesses genuinely legitimate authority, because state power cannot secure authentic consent or moral obligation from every individual it governs. Other traditions disagree, holding that political authority can be justified through consent, mutual benefit, or the goods that only a state can secure. Mohism's own case for a strong, meritocratic state as the only real defense against endemic warfare sits at the opposite end of this same question from philosophical anarchism, despite arising from an entirely separate tradition.
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Mohism argued for meritocratic government and against offensive warfare, placing it in dialogue with political philosophy as well as ethics.

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Silhak ("practical learning") is a Korean reform movement in political economy and statecraft, a Political Philosophy classification.

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  • entry: Political Legitimacy
    Political legitimacy is a virtue of political institutions and of the decisions, about laws, policies, and candidates for political office, made within them.
  • entry: Jean Bodin
  • s.v. Liberty
  • Includes: Plato
  • Includes: Simone de Beauvoir
  • Includes: Jeremy Bentham
  • Includes: The Republic
  • Includes: Karl Marx
  • Includes: Jean Bodin
  • Includes: Six Books of the Commonwealth
  • Includes: Thomas Hobbes
  • Includes: Leviathan
  • Includes: John Locke
  • Includes: Second Treatise of Government
  • Includes: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Includes: The Social Contract
  • Includes: Max Weber
  • Includes: Economy and Society
  • Includes: Social Contract Theory, entry: Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Includes: Marxism, entry: Karl Marx
  • Associated With: Plato, entry: Plato's Republic
  • Associated With: Aristotle, entry: Aristotle's Politics
  • Associated With: Thomas Hobbes, entry: Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy
  • Associated With: John Locke, entry: Locke's Political Philosophy
  • Associated With: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, entry: Rousseau's Political Philosophy
  • Includes: A Theory of Justice
  • Includes: Das Kapital
  • Includes: God and the State
  • Includes: Han Feizi
  • Includes: Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • Includes: The Book of Lord Shang
  • Includes: The Rebel
  • Includes: Two Treatises of Government
  • Includes: What Is Property?
  • Includes: Frankfurt School
  • Includes: Max Horkheimer
  • Includes: Dialectic of Enlightenment
  • Associated With: Mohism, entry: Mohism, Introduction
    They were the first in the tradition to engage, like Socrates in ancient Greece, in an explicit, reflective search for objective moral standards and to give step-by-step, tightly reasoned arguments for their views.
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Anarchism is a political theory that is skeptical of the justification of authority and power.
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It is useful to divide philosophy of economics in this way into three subject matters which can be regarded respectively as branches of action theory, ethics (or normative social and political philosophy), and philosophy of science.
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These issues cover many areas, but fall primarily into five philosophical categories: metaphysics, ethics and moral philosophy, philosophy of law, political philosophy and aesthetics.
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Feminist philosophy has also been an important source for arguments for gender equality.
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    The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should be limited only to prevent harm to other individuals.
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    The harm principle holds that the actions of individuals should be limited only to prevent harm to other individuals.
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John Dewey (Wikipedia)
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Philosophy of education, epistemology, journalism, ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, metaphysics
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Ethics, social and political philosophy, logic, epistemology
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Michel Foucault (Wikipedia)
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Ethics, historical epistemology, history of ideas, philosophy of literature, philosophy of technology, political philosophy
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Kwame Nkrumah (Wikipedia)
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Kwame Nkrumah (born Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma, /(ə)nˈkruːmə/ (ə)n-KROO-mə; 21 September 1909-27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary.
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Simone Weil (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science
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Frantz Fanon (Wikipedia)
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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925-6 December 1961) was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory.
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Political philosophy
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Jurgen Habermas (Wikipedia)
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Epistemology critical social theory political theory philosophy of law Rationalization (sociology), rationalization pragmatics pragmatism
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George Santayana (Wikipedia)
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Moral philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion
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Cornel West (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, race (classification of human beings), race, caste, democracy, liberation theology
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Martha Nussbaum (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, ethics, feminism, liberal theory
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Probabilistic semantics, political theory, moral theory, intellectual history, race and identity theory
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Robert Nozick (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, ethics, epistemology
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Herbert Marcuse (Wikipedia)
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Herbert Marcuse ( mar-KOO-zə; German: [maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898, July 29, 1979) was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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Paul Ricoeur (Wikipedia)
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Phenomenology Hermeneutics Philosophy of action Moral philosophy Political philosophy Philosophy of language Personal identity Narrative identity Historiography Literary criticism Ancient philosophy
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Achille Mbembe (Wikipedia)
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Joseph-Achille Mbembe (; born 1957) is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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Charles Taylor (Wikipedia)
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Social philosophy, political philosophy, cosmopolitanism, secularity, religion, modernity
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Michael Sandel (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, jurisprudence, ethics
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Ronald Dworkin (Wikipedia)
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Jurisprudence, political philosophy
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T. M. Scanlon (Wikipedia)
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Ethics, political philosophy
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G.A. Cohen (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of history, social theory
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Nancy Fraser (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy
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Axel Honneth (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, Social philosophy, Moral philosophy, Critical theory, Recognition (sociology), Recognition
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Giorgio Agamben (Wikipedia)
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Aesthetics Political philosophy Social philosophy
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Charles W. Mills (Wikipedia)
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Charles Wade Mills (January 3, 1951, September 20, 2021) was a Caribbean-American philosopher who specialized in political philosophy.
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Niccolò Machiavelli (Wikipedia)
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Politics and political philosophy, military theory, history
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Paul Feyerabend (Wikipedia)
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Philosophy of science, epistemology, political philosophy, ancient philosophy, philosophy of mind
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Imre Lakatos (Wikipedia)
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Philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, politics
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Miguel de Unamuno (Wikipedia)
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Philosophy of religion, political philosophy
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Isaiah Berlin (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, philosophy of history, history of ideas, ethics, Marxism, modern history, Russian history, Russian literature, Romanticism
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Cicero (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, Politics, Philosophy of law, law, rhetoric, theology, ethics, epistemology
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Jean-Francois Lyotard (Wikipedia)
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Epistemology, sociology, political philosophy, aesthetics
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Henry Sidgwick (Wikipedia)
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Economics, ethics, political philosophy
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Erasmus (Wikipedia)
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Bonae litterae Philology Pastoral theology Patristics Catholic theology Political philosophy Philosophy of education Criticism of Protestantism
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    Political philosophy, Politics, philosophy of history, history, philosophy of religion, religion, Western esotericism, esotericism
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    Political philosophy, Politics, philosophy of history, history, philosophy of religion, religion, Western esotericism, esotericism
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Peter Kropotkin - Wikipedia
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Political philosophy Political history Economics Ethics Darwinian theory Geography
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Michael Walzer (Wikipedia)
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Michael Laban Walzer (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual.
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Contemporary political theory, feminist social theory, and public policy
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Moral philosophy, political philosophy
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Ato Sekyi-Otu (Wikipedia)
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Ato Sekyi-Otu is a Ghanaian political philosopher.
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Aminata Diaw (Wikipedia)
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Aminata Diaw Cissé (24 May 1959-14 April 2017) was a Senegalese lecturer and political philosopher who taught at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD).
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Burnout (psychology), Burnout, Depression (clinical), Depression, Internet, Love, Political theory, Power (social and political), Power, Religion, Social media, Transparency (behavior), Transparency, Violence
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Wikipedia: Abdolkarim Soroush
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Philosophy of religion Social and political philosophy
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Akeel Bilgrami, Wikipedia
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Philosophy of the mind, Philosophy of language, Secularism, Political philosophy
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Ethics Political philosophy
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Amia Srinivasan (Wikipedia)
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Epistemology Political philosophy Feminist philosophy
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Sexuality, desire, gay liberation, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, capitalism, identity
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Antonio Escohotado, Wikipedia
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Liberalism, metaphysics, culture, ethics, freedom, history of communism, sociology, drugs, politics, dialectic, Marxism, fractal, drug liberalization, history of commerce, political philosophy, history of slavery, law
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John Anderson (philosopher) (Wikipedia)
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Political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of sexuality, philosophy of religion
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Stephen Davies (philosopher) (Wikipedia)
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He mainly writes on aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of music but also works on political philosophy.
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Legal philosophy, political philosophy, feminist philosophy
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Wikipedia: Wendy Brown
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Wendy L. Brown (born November 28, 1955) is an American political theorist.
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Wikipedia: Neera K. Badhwar
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Ethics, political philosophy
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Wikipedia: Christian F. Rostbøll
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Political philosophy
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Wikipedia: Simon Hailwood
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Simon Hailwood is a British philosopher whose research concerns moral philosophy, political philosophy, environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, political realism, and pragmatism.
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Liberalism (Wikipedia)
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Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.
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Postcolonialism is the academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Ayn Rand
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Her political philosophy is in the classical liberal tradition, with that tradition’s emphasis upon individualism, the constitutional protection of individual rights to life, liberty, and property, and limited government.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jacques Derrida
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in literary criticism and theory, in art and, in particular, architectural theory, and in political theory.
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Sri Aurobindo (Wikipedia)
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Thomas More (Wikipedia)
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Kwame Gyekye (Wikipedia)
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Notable is his presentation and defense of moderate communitarianism (or MC), which can be understood as a political theory rooted in principles of common good and dignity.
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B. R. Ambedkar (Wikipedia)
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Amartya Sen (Wikipedia)
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Luis Villoro, Wikipedia
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His main research interests include ethics and political philosophy, but also aesthetics.
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Wikipedia: Noël O'Sullivan
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Aníbal Quijano, Wikipedia
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His research was about sociology, economics, history and political theory.
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Leonhard Praeg (Wikipedia)
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Praeg's work is rooted in African philosophy with a particular focus on African political philosophy and the politics of knowledge production in higher education.
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Wikipedia: Rhina Toruño Haensly
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in modern philosophy, existentialism, contemporary French philosophy, ethics, and social and political philosophy.
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Ngamen Kouassi Cyrille Dalex (Wikipedia)
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Ngamen, a professor of philosophy, has specialty in Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy.
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Antonio Gramsci (Wikipedia)
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Politics, economics, ideology, culture
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Louis Althusser (Wikipedia)
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Politics, economics, ideology
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Onora O'Neill (Wikipedia)
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O'Neill has written widely on political philosophy and ethics, international justice, bioethics and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
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Alexander Herzen (Wikipedia)
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Politics, economics, class struggle
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Wikipedia: Samantha Brennan
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Brennan's research focuses on contemporary normative ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
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Wikipedia: Bernd Ladwig
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Bernd Ladwig (born 7 August 1966) is a German political philosopher who is a professor of political theory and political philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Tommaso Campanella
Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyIncludes: Tommaso Campanella, Introduction, political theory
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The fundamental core of his thinking, which will be examined in this article, was concerned with the philosophy of nature (what would nowadays be called science), magic, political theory and natural religion.
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1001Philosophers: Muhammad Iqbal
1001PhilosophersIncludes: Muhammad Iqbal, Opening sentence
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Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) was a Pakistani philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Islamic Philosophy and Political Philosophy.
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