Talk:Introduction to Philosophy/What is Political Philosophy

I just went through and wrote a few things out. I'll try to go back soon and create subsections and leave the top page as a broader definition of political philosophy. I'll also expand the top two paragraphs to a better definition. I obviously left so much out of this. 10:47, 7 October 2004 s.rice


 * Hey, cool! Thanks for doing this.  I was beginning to think I was the only philosopher on the planet.  I'm writing the logic bit.    I'll leave the political philosophy to you, as I know very little about it. --publunch 11:39, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * BTW, we need someone to write a few paragraphs about John Locke's political philosophy on the wikipedia John Locke page. When I tried editing the John Locke page, I found quite quickly that my knowledge of the man and his work is rather patchy.--publunch 11:49, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wow... I haven't looked at this page in over seven years. I think that I need to come back and contribute. Unfortunately, not much work has been done on it at all? Is Wikibooks just floundering as a project? Or is it just certain topics, like this one? As this is an introductory page, I'd like to divide it up into "moments" of political philosophy; perhaps it could be first divided up into something like "eras" of political philosophy which would start — ostensibly — with Plato; then move to the Romans (perhaps including the stoics — I'm not sure about this); then I'm not sure about who to put in before Machiavelli and Hobbes...; after that, obviously, there is a strong tradition in political philosophy itself, but, my next question is: where do we draw the line in political philosophy and different disciplines? While Marx, Weber, and Durkheim are political philosophers, they are usually considered sociologists (see, here my categories don't actually hold up), one could read Descartes as a political philosopher, but, that would imply looking at the political implicates of the "cogito," which are many and varied. Obviously, Kant could come into play as could Nietzsche. Perhaps, the better question that I should pose is: how do we categorize this book? Or, at least, this introduction? There are a few other chapters (do we call them chapters?) in this Wikibook, but how should we organize it? Chronologically? Thematically (i.e. utilitarians, deontologists, social contract theorists, ...). The way that MediaWiki is coded requires some structure in order to render things readable, so, any advice? 8:02, 14 April 2011 s.rice

Question, The concept of human right is political idea, but in real sense there no human right and universe, comment.
Question, The concept of human right is political idea, but in real sense there no human right and universe, comment.