The Ontological Nature of Politics

IF 2.9 1区 哲学 Q1 ETHICS
V. Levytskyy
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The article is devoted to clarifying the understanding of the nature of politics. Having documented the lack of consensus in the scientific discourse even regarding the very concept of politics, the author proposes an approach that, from his point of view, allows to obtain the most consistent conceptualization of the political. In his study of the nature of politics, the author relies primarily on the analysis of the phenomenon of polis, because, despite serious disagreements in the scientific circles about what politics is, its origin is generally associated with polis. Based on the works of Plato and Aristotle and drawing on the works of modern historians and political philosophers, he demonstrates the inadequacy of the interpretation of polis as a city, state or society, and proposes to consider polis as a sphere of “supra-physical” and “supra-economic” activity of citizens in external and internal harmonization of public space. In the development of the transcendentalist tradition, the article shows that polis is primarily an ontological reality, a place where (in the eyes of the Greeks) the existence of being was manifested. Taking into account the connection between polis and politics in the ancient world, the author comes to the conclusion that politics as a practice of organizing life in polis is an activity for the formation and maintenance of ontological reality. Such an understanding of politics, in his opinion, is valid not only in relation to antiquity. Therefore, he defines politics as an ontological action, in which a struggle for the fate of being unfolds every time. In this respect, the nature of ancient politics differs little from the nature of medieval and modern politics. Despite all the differences between modern and pre-modern political discourse, this definition quite adequately characterizes the nature of the political per se.
政治的本体论本质
这篇文章致力于澄清对政治本质的理解。在记录了科学话语中甚至关于政治概念本身缺乏共识之后,作者提出了一种方法,从他的角度来看,可以获得最一致的政治概念化。在对政治本质的研究中,作者主要依赖于对城邦现象的分析,因为尽管科学界对政治是什么存在严重分歧,但政治的起源通常与城邦有关。他以柏拉图和亚里士多德的著作为基础,借鉴现代历史学家和政治哲学家的著作,论证了将城邦解释为城市、国家或社会的不足,并提出将城邦视为公民在公共空间的内外协调中进行“超物理”和“超经济”活动的领域。在先验主义传统的发展过程中,这篇文章表明城邦主要是一个本体论的现实,一个(在希腊人眼中)存在被表现出来的地方。结合古代城邦与政治的联系,认为政治作为城邦生活的组织实践,是一种形成和维护本体论现实的活动。在他看来,这种对政治的理解不仅适用于古代。因此,他将政治定义为一种本体论的行动,在这种行动中,每一次都展开着对存在命运的斗争。在这方面,古代政治的性质与中世纪和现代政治的性质差别不大。尽管现代和前现代政治话语之间存在种种差异,但这一定义相当充分地表征了政治本身的本质。
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4.10
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5.60%
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Political Philosophy is an international journal devoted to the study of theoretical issues arising out of moral, legal and political life. It welcomes, and hopes to foster, work cutting across a variety of disciplinary concerns, among them philosophy, sociology, history, economics and political science. The journal encourages new approaches, including (but not limited to): feminism; environmentalism; critical theory, post-modernism and analytical Marxism; social and public choice theory; law and economics, critical legal studies and critical race studies; and game theoretic, socio-biological and anthropological approaches to politics. It also welcomes work in the history of political thought which builds to a larger philosophical point and work in the philosophy of the social sciences and applied ethics with broader political implications. Featuring a distinguished editorial board from major centres of thought from around the globe, the journal draws equally upon the work of non-philosophers and philosophers and provides a forum of debate between disparate factions who usually keep to their own separate journals.
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