What is Political Philosophy?

In this talk we ask the question: what is political philosophy? We explore the classical and modern conceptions of political philosophy and why this difference matters.

0:00-3:15 - Introduction to Political Philosophy
3:15-4:33 - The Classical Tradition
4:33-14:25 - The Modern Tradition
14:25-20:15 - Augustine & Love
20:15-24:26 - Foucault & Postmodernism
24:26-27:23 - Conclusion
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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).
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[dylansmith]

Hey, Im interested in learning and studying political philosophy and am soon to start my degree in History and political science. Would you say Strausses "history of political philosophy" is a good introduction to political philosophy and the idea spoken of in this video? thanks.

[ricardogarcia-vihv]

You should try to make this a paper or a book

[JamesAndrewMacGlashanTaylor]

You definitely need a better term than "libertarian" since a major contingent, if not majority, of libertarians from the beginning of this movement (at least in the US) understand themselves to be aligned with the classical/ancient tradition of virtue.