How to think politically

Author's name: Graeme Garrard Publisher: Al-Rafidain for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Political Sciences Book overview: Author's name: Graeme Garrard and James Bernard Murphy Regarding politics, what are the most urgent issues today? No less than the way we should live, as individuals and communities. This book goes beyond superficial titles, fake news, and media madness to explore the fundamental questions raised, and the answers provided by a group of the greatest 30 political thinkers in history. Are we political beings, or economic, or religious? Should we live in small towns, or in countries, or in multinational empires? What values should politics promote? Should wealth be private or shared? Do animals have rights?! There is no idea close or distant, tolerant or extreme, for this global group of thinkers, which includes: Confucius, Plato, Augustine, Machiavelli, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Nietzsche, Gandhi, Al-Aqsa, Arendt, Nussbaum, and Rawls. In intensive chapters, the authors paint a vivid picture of these insightful political thinkers, always convincing, explaining how their ideas arose from dramatic moments in their lives and developed beyond that. We now — more than ever — need to be reminded that politics can be a noble, inspiring, and civilizational art. And if we want to understand the political world today, we must understand the foundations of politics by its architects. This book is the perfect guide for that.