What Does “Political” Mean

Political is a ubiquitous and seemingly indispensable term in the discussion of human affairs. We use it to speak of quite different kinds of things — institutions, actions, conflicts, expenditures, a type of discourse, a branch of science, and such. We apply it to the life and thought of modern nations, ancient cities, and primitive tribes. Even the internal affairs of businesses, unions, schools and churches are sometimes called “political.” In all these cases, we assume that the term has, or at least can have, some definite meaning. Yet it is difficult to say what, if anything, “political” signifies in its various applications and how it signifies what it does

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• The Hand that Holds the Pen’

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• Language in the Philosophy of Aristotle

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• A History of Political Philosophy

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• The Amphibolous Terms in Aristotle, Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides

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• Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl

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• The Return to Reason

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• The Primary Questions of Political Inquiry

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• Metaphor and Political Knowledge

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• Positivism, Historicism, and Political Inquiry

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• "The Structure of "Politics

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