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Plato’s Republic: The political subject, the body politic and metaphysics
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Aristotle’s Politics: The critique of Plato and the re-casting of the relations between the political subject and the body politic
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Introduction
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Reading Aristotle’s Politics Books I and II: Civility, the critique of Plato’s epistemic aristocracy, and on civil order
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Reading Aristotle’s Politics Books III-VI: On the Platonic paradox
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Reading Aristotle’s Politics Books VII-VIII: On the perfect constitution and the borderline between democracy and oligarchy
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Conclusion
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Introduction
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Highlights of Islamic Political Philosophy: al-Fārābī’s Theory in Relation to Aristotle and Plato
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Introduction
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al-Fārābī on the Taxonomy of Rational Sciences and the Need for a Mediating Relationship between Rational Universals and Sensible Experience: The Implications for Political Philosophy
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al-Fārābī’s Book of Religion and On the Perfect State: The Role of the Virtuous Ruler and Virtuous Religious Sciences
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al-Fārābī’s Book of Religion and On the Perfect State: Continued
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Conclusion
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Introduction
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Aquinas and Metaphysical Reign of the Sacred over the Profane
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Early Modern Materialist Rationalism—Spinoza: Theological Political Treatise Pantheistic Rational Materialism and the Promise of Secularism
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Enlightenment Protestant Liberalism—Immanuel Kant: Politics and the Rational Limits of Moral Religion and Scientific Judgments
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Theoretical and Philosophical Blurring of the Boundaries between the Secular and the Religious—Carl Schmitt Politische Theologie
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Introduction
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Carl Schmitt’s State of Exception and the Revolt against 19th Century Political Romanticism: Reversing al-Juwaynī
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Carl Schmitt, Existentialism and Decisions Theory: Critiques of Enlightenment Liberal Assumptions
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Carl Schmitt and the Inescapability of Theology and Dictatorship: Critiques of Liberalism and Marxism
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Conclusion
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Introduction
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