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Politics is Metaphysical? Yes and No
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Arxhend BlakçoriIbn Haldun University, Department of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey
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Chaos, disorder, and uncertainty are self-evident in the manifested inward and outward reality of the day and age, which we vividly experience. Politics, namely the will to power, has become in the metaphysical realm as universal, essential, triumphant and fortified and metaphysical realities, namely the seeking of the truth and the examination of the mysteries of existence are camouflaged with commodity, use-value, and particular blind following of craving desires under the pestilential winds of the pursuit of political power. In turn, the realm of the intelligible, namely knowledge, wisdom, justice and human virtues, has become only a footnote to the political discussion. Under such conditions, instead of metaphysics, politics and its politicking element permeates everything starting from the street and day to day conversations to the intellectual and academic fields, including science, history, philosophy, and artistic work. At such terms of the current circumstances of reality, politics is the means and the end in and of itself.
Following the preceding examination, I shall dedicate this scholarly writing with the aim to conceptualize, elaborate, and clarify the ‘nature of the politics and political order’. I demonstrated that the politics and political order is neither independently self-existent nor an emergence of the melancholy-driven nostalgia of the past, neither altogether transcendent nor wholly earthly. Rather, using the political plethora of the Islamic and Western philosophical worldview, namely an comparative approach to study of the political thought of Al-Ghazali and Sheldon Wolin, I conclude that the politics, political order, and political knowledge are proceeded, categorized, and established by the universal eternal principles of metaphysics and the three attachable elements of politics have their right condition, place, and station within the largest scheme of the hierarchy of life, being, reality, and metaphysics.
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Publication TypeChapter
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Volume
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Pages309-322
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PublishedJune 7, 2025
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Series
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Series PositionProceedings 02
Bela, B., Murtezani, S. ., & Abdula, S. (Eds.). (2025). Politics is Metaphysical? Yes and No. In 1st International Balkan Studies Congress Proceedings: Vol. Proceedings 02 (pp. 309-322). Idefe Publications. https://doi.org/10.5331/