Human Nature, Politics, and Institutions: A Study of the Logic of Normative Politics and Its Problems

Author: Zhou Shaolai
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book constructs an analytical framework for the normative political logic: a tripartite structure of political rationality, political governance principles, and institutional arrangements. It applies this framework to systematically review the classic paradigms of normative political logic in the history of Western political thought from a longitudinal historical perspective, analyzing the assumptions, premises, deductions, transformations, conclusions, and their implied real possibilities and shortcomings of its political logic. On this basis, it applies the same analytical framework to conduct horizontal comparisons and provide positive interpretations of the relevant issues related to normative political logic, proposing the main lines of human-centered political research. Finally, it evaluates the contemporary responses to normative political logic.