Alvydas Jokubaitis
Teoria Polityki, No. 1/2017, 2017, pp. 223 - 234
https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000TP.17.012.6591The aim of the article is to reveal the nature of political values. One group of theoreticians thinks that political values are derived from non-political spheres. The representatives of the other group hold the view that there are purely political values. These two different understandings are to be found in the works of Michel Foucault and John Rawls. Foucault thinks that any non-political value can be transformed into a political value, and Rawls claims that there are purely political values. Both of these positions face difficulties. Foucault cannot explain how non-political values become political, and Rawls cannot explain how non-political values can influence politics. To solve the problem of the origin of political values we have to turn to what Carl Schmitt calls the political. Without a definition of the political it is impossible to explain political values.
Alvydas Jokubaitis
Teoria Polityki, No. 5/2021, 2021, pp. 193 - 203
https://doi.org/10.4467/25440845TP.21.013.13793Leo Strauss‘s article “An Epilogue” is made up of many different critical arguments about political science. The guiding principles of these arguments are not revealed clearly enough. One can even get the impression that “An Epilogue” is an unfinished article. Only after finding the guiding principles we can understand the Strauss‘s critique. He emphasized the difference between the philosophical and scientific approach to politics. “An Epilogue” shows that he understood political science as philosophy.