La Filosofía Política, componente fundamental de la Ciencia Política: significados, relaciones y retos en el siglo xxi

The central proposal of this article is that political philosophy has been part of political science, as philosophy, as theory or as history of ideas, although not always exposed with the same intensity. One of the reasons for its influence variation can be explained from the moment when both disciplines development during the second half of the xx century and during the first years of the xxi, two processes causing debate, took place: the first one was the “death” of political philosophy due to the arousal and development of political science and other social sciences, although political philosophy would experiment a subsequent revival; nevertheless with the advance and development of an empirical political science, the idea of its “death” has appeared, due to the absence of a narrower dialogue between political philosophy and other disciplines that are necessary for its “rebirth”.