Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, but it has played a major part of political science, within which a strong focus has historically been placed on both the history of political thought and contemporary political theory.
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Chinese political philosophy was developed as a response to the social and political breakdown of the country characteristic of the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.
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One of the first, extremely important classical works of political philosophy is Plato's Republic, which was followed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics.
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Roman political philosophy was influenced by the Stoics and the Roman statesman Cicero.
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Early Islamic philosophy emphasized an inexorable link between science and religion, and the process of ijtihad to find truth—in effect all philosophy was "political" as it had real implications for governance.
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Aquinas's use of them set the agenda, for scholastic political philosophy dominated European thought for centuries even unto the Renaissance.
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Political philosophy'storians have described Voltaire's description of the history of Christianity as "propagandistic".
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Political philosophy begins by distinguishing old and new threats to liberty.
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Political philosophy uses, On Liberty to discuss gender equality in society.
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Political philosophy drew a distinction between the "Liberty of the Ancients" and the "Liberty of the Moderns".
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Political philosophy attacked Napoleon's martial appetite, on the grounds that it was illiberal and no longer suited to modern commercial social organization.
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Utility of political philosophy might be found either in the intrinsic ability of the best of past political thought to sharpen the wits of contemporary political thinkers, much as any difficult intellectual exercise sharpens the mind and deepens the imagination, or in the ability of political philosophy to serve as a thought-saving device by providing the political scientist with a rich source of concepts, models, insights, theories, and methods.
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Contemporaneously with the rise of analytic ethics in Anglo-American thought, in Europe, several new lines of Political philosophy directed at the critique of existing societies arose between the 1950s and 1980s.
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