Essays on Political Philosophy

Conservatism as a political ideology expresses the views of people who place tradition, order, social stability and the preservation of key institutions, such as religion, property rights, hierarchy and authority as their top priorities. Conservatives tend to oppose radical reforms in society and they strictly…

The World of Political Philosophy The business of world affairs as we know it today is based on political endeavors of peace, war, economics, and government. When most people think of politics, they envision electoral campaigns, military operations, democrats arguing with republicans, Liberalists brawling with…

The History of Civil Society as a Concept The term “civil society” has a long history in political philosophy, with different philosophers altering its definition since its inception. The disentanglement of those debates has become an industry of its own in recent years, but a…

What natural law is may be defined and comprehended in several different ways. It all originates from the “natural” aspect. Natural is defined as something with a basis of nature; that produces a truth, fact, or certain belief uninfluenced by humankind. Law is defined as…

History of the concept of ideology Idea-ology, a science of ideas The word ideology is a child of the Enlightenment and would have been used for the first time by Antoine Destutt de Tracy (Knight, 2006, p. 619), in a lecture on April 21, 1796…

There is no simple answer to how modern freedom is defined with in political philosophy. In a free country with a modern democracy, political freedom could be defined as justice and fairness. There are two types of liberty; positive and negative. Positive liberty is freedom…