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Reflection on the Political Philosophy of American Populism
Author(s)
Gong Xiang
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DOI:10.17265/2578-4269/2023.01.017
Affiliation(s)
School of Humanities, Tongji University, China
ABSTRACT
In order to better explore and reflect on the predicament of American populism today, it is particularly important to reflect on American populism at the level of political philosophy. The political thought of American populism first comes from various political ideas of populism. However, such political ideas all originate from thinking of political philosophy. If we reflect on American populism in the field of political philosophy, we have to return to the classical democratic political philosophy and its ideas of ancient Greece. However, the return does not mean that we stick to the classical political philosophy. Therefore, this paper intends to divide and discuss in a historical way, pointing to different stages of populist political thoughts and focusing on different political philosophical thoughts: In the aspect of classical political philosophy, it focuses on political philosopher Leo Strauss’ related thoughts about the ideal of western classical democracy and the distortion of modern democracy, and analyzes the concept of “political system” in detail. In aspect of recent political philosophy, it focuses on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s popular sovereignty theory, his “public will” thought and “square political theory”, and expounds the “anti-theater theory” and its “anti-representative system” thought. In the aspect of modern political philosophy, it focuses on Isaiah Berlin’s “liberal pluralism” and “value theory”, and analyzes the multiculturalism in which the chaos of modern American politics originated.
KEYWORDS
reflection, American populism, political philosophy
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