Is political philosophy alive today in the west? Did it survive the barrage of sociology, economics and feel-good individualism? Can the good regime and the good life still be the subject of discussion in today's democratic countries, or are we destined to wallow in "the joyless quest for joy"?
>>296622
Who is that supposed to be?
>>296628
Leo Strauss
>>296622
>Can the good regime and the good life still be the subject of discussion in today's democratic countries, or are we destined to wallow in "the joyless quest for joy"?
Sure, though we'd have to be accept that that kind of inquiry is unlikely to become especially popular. Plato and Aristotle were, after all, among the only people inquiring in that way, and it was only surface teachings of theirs that became popular subsequent to them.
>>296622
>Is political philosophy alive today in the west?
No
>>296979
Who killed it?
Was it you?
>political philosophy
>good life
>good regime
It was never seriously relevant. Just a parlor game for intellectuals where winners would get nice-sounding tenets promoted as window dressing to rationalize the government
mass democracy is what killed it
>>296991
Der Wille zur Macht, or yet another case of Germans misreading French authors (this time Hippolyte Taine and De Maistre as mediated by Comte and Taine), and taking their "conclusion" to the extreme while completely disregarding the authors' original intention. Seriously Germans should be banned from every library on the face of the earth forever.
Birth of Tragedy is cool though.
>>297051
will to power isnt even canon, pleb
>>297051
>waawaa people correct my bullshit and ignore the doltish parts, be cool be derivative
You sound exactly like sour Schopenhauer fans.
