political science
Abasaleh Taghizadeh Tabari
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Understanding and critical analysis of Karl Schmitt's political philosophy is possible only when we question the relationship between theology and politics and open a path to enter his project. The same direction is followed in this article. After presenting this introduction, referring to the fundamental ...
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Understanding and critical analysis of Karl Schmitt's political philosophy is possible only when we question the relationship between theology and politics and open a path to enter his project. The same direction is followed in this article. After presenting this introduction, referring to the fundamental question of Schmitt's project, that is, what is the concept of political affairs and how is it possible in the modern era, we criticized the concept of political affairs according to the position he adopted in this treatise and more in the treatise on political theology. Finally, in this article, we showed that despite the effects that Schmitt's theological understanding had on his understanding of the concept of political affairs, he could not have an active relationship with it. In other words, the two projects of political theology and the concept of the political affair remain two projects for Schmitt and could not lead to a single understanding of politics. According to Schmitt, although theology is present in the historical nature of politics, it is neither necessary nor has an obvious effect on the inner understanding of politics.
political science
Reza Najafzadeh
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This article is dedicated to the evaluation of Spinoza’s TTP. TTP is one of the most valuable treatises of the Enlightenment and represents the controversy of the old and the new in seventeenth-century Europe. The treatise includes the historical hermeneutics of Scripture and represents Spinoza’s ...
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This article is dedicated to the evaluation of Spinoza’s TTP. TTP is one of the most valuable treatises of the Enlightenment and represents the controversy of the old and the new in seventeenth-century Europe. The treatise includes the historical hermeneutics of Scripture and represents Spinoza’s republican political philosophy. The theological chapters of TTP, as well as its political chapters, contain topics that can be useful to the Iranian society involved in religious politics and political religion. Spinozist studies in Iran have not been significant compared to Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, and French traditions. These studies in the form of authorship and translation have become more serious from 2010 onward. The translation of TTP by Ali Ferdowsi in Iran is a good endeavor in itself, but there are also criticisms. For several reasons, Ferdowsi’s translation cannot be considered the end of the road: abstruse and unfamiliar language, unequal equivalents, misplacement of some sentences and words, and especially exclusive reliance on Silverthorne-Israel translation and lack of direct reference to Latin and other versions of this treatise can be enumerated as the pitfalls.
