Politics

This chapter focuses on the identification of the characteristic features of the practice of politics. It begins with the discussion of the concept of the political. It highlights the achievement that is realized whenever an elaborate set of political practices of the type with which Weber was concerned is institutionalized. It demonstrates how public law forms a distinctive aspect of political practice. It shows that politics is rooted in human conflict arising from the struggle to realize the varying ideals of the good life.

Political science · Politics · Law · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory