Political Wisdom Research Articles

Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra in Viśākhadatta’s Mudrārākṣasa: A Reflection of Political Wisdom

This paper examines the profound influence of Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra on Viśākhadatta’s Mudrārākṣasa, highlighting how the latter reflects the political strategies, administrative insights, and espionage techniques prescribed by Kauṭilya. By analyzing key elements of Mudrārākṣasa, such as the downfall of the Nanda Dynasty and the intricate espionage system, this paper argues that Viśākhadatta’s work serves as a dramatic embodiment of Kauṭilya’s political wisdom. The discussion focuses on the practical application of Arthaśāstra’s principles within the narrative of Mudrārākṣasa, providing a comprehensive understanding of how ancient Indian statecraft and strategic planning are artistically rendered in classical literature. Keyword – Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra, Viśākhadatta’s Mudrārākṣasa, Political Wisdom

An Analysis of Ways to Optimize Teacher-student Relationship in Ideological and Political Wisdom Classroom Teaching in Senior High School

Wisdom classroom based on big data technology breaks the traditional dichotomous teacher-student relationship, and it is necessary to re-explore the teacher-student relationship in the context of wisdom classroom. In view of the current teacher-student relationship problems in smart classroom teaching at the data, technology and virtual levels, the whole process and scene teaching combining in-class and extra-class, online and offline, virtual and reality are constructed from the three levels of intermediary symbols, interactive ways and knowledge concepts of teachers and students, and the relationship between teachers and students in smart classroom teaching is reconstructed through data empowering. In order to promote the high school ideological and political teaching practice into a democratic cooperation, spiritual communication behavior, and effectively improve the effectiveness of high school ideological and political teaching.

Threading the Needle: Jacques Maritain’s Defense of a Christian and Liberal Democracy

Some of the key oppositions tearing apart American public life in the early 21st century are related to issues explored in the mid-twentieth century political philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Supporters of liberal democracy, then and now, insist that it is a political system that privatizes religion and all concepts of a common good. Supporters of an integralist alternative demand official state support for religion as the vision underlying political goals. And, of course, arrayed against both are authoritarian movements that threaten democracy altogether. In this context, Maritain’s nuanced political philosophy is far from dated. He thoughtfully defends liberal democracy’s protection of human rights, while also demonstrating that democracy is strengthened by a Catholic vision of the ultimate human good. His political wisdom provides a way through our current impasses and points to a path that will support the survival of this fragile experiment in democracy and the even more fragile hope that democratic processes could be a means to create a more just world.

Political Wisdom of the Street: A Study of Kashmiri Proverbs.

Political Wisdom of the Street: A Study of Kashmiri Proverbs.

Tragic reflection, political wisdom, and the future of algorithmic war

ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are being developed to improve decision making around the resort to force. These technologies are valued for their capacity to rapidly collect and analyse big data, model unique courses of action, offer probabilistic recommendations and predictions regarding the type and degree of force required, and evaluate the benefits, risks, and costs of action and inaction. Those concerned with these developments highlight the possibility of automation bias in human-machine teaming, and the potential de-skilling of individual and institutional decision making. This concern is valid, but too narrow in scope. In addition to human knowledge and skill, wisdom is imperilled by the growing technification of violence and war. Drawing on the lessons of tragedy, I argue that the speed, inflexibility, and false confidence of algorithmically assisted decision making cultivates an insensitivity to the tragic qualities of violence. This dulling of the tragic imagination is likely to lead to more imprudent and immoral uses of force, not less.

Politics and Religion: Dichotomy and Correlation in the Context of Indonesian Democracy

This paper on politics and religion will show the differences in principle and the relationship between the two. Based on their origin, politics and religion are dichotomous, even though they are both located in the country of Indonesia. For this reason, the exploration of politics derived from philosophy is necessary, and the thoughts of ancient Greek philosophers are the users who are the initial place where politics and religion are implemented together. Meanwhile, the correlation will be shown in justice, honesty, and humility between politics and religion. The trend in Indonesia is the intention to unite politics and religion, which is often considered a democratic system, even though the two are different in both origin and purpose, although they can meet in policy. For this kind of research, the use of philosophical texts of ancient Greek philosophy is imperative and the applicable methodology is qualitative with an interpretive approach that is reflexive following the Indonesian democratic context. This research aims not to mix politics and religion, because the origin and purpose are different, and the domain and system are different, although they can meet in the attitude of wisdom in politics

The Interaction between Custom and Ritual in Chinese Society

Abstract In traditional China’s complicated social system, the interaction between custom and ritual laid the foundation for a national political framework and local societal functions, and has continued to play a role in modern Chinese nation-building since the May Fourth Movement. The essence of this interaction is that it draws together national politics with non-governmental micropolitics; by engaging widespread support from across society, it ensures that society’s internal mechanisms function smoothly through a shared cultural identity, thereby eliminating real or potential social crises. Today, in a time of rapid globalization, all nations are faced with issues such as international regulations, national legal rights, and civil governance. Chinese traditional political wisdom and social mechanisms embedded in the interaction between custom and ritual may be useful.

Analysis on the Path of Optimizing the Ideological and Political Wisdom Classroom Teaching in High School under the Background of Education Digitization

The report of the Party's 20th National Congress for the first time included "education digitization" in the report, and education digitization has increasingly become the focus of education reform and development. Under the background of the digital era, the ideological and political wisdom classroom in high school has its value implications. This paper explores the teaching practice of using the intelligent classroom teaching platform to achieve interactive communication before, during and after class in the actual teaching of ideological and political classes in high school, so as to improve the quality and efficiency of ideological and political classes in high school and cultivate new people in the era needed by society.

Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics

Modern philosopher kings: wisdom and power in politics

The Islamic Call: Al-Farabi's Philosophical Perspectives on Navigating the Dilemma of Modernity in Establishing an Ideal State

This study aims to explore and analyze the concepts proposed by Al-Farabi regarding the ideal state or the virtuous city in order to enrich our understanding of how Islamic states can address the challenges of modernity and democracy while maintaining a balanced approach to core Islamic values. The research adopts a literature review methodology, collecting and analyzing various primary and secondary sources related to Al-Farabi’s political thought on the concept of the ideal state. Al-Farabi;s ideas about the ideal state or virtuous city provide crucial principles for constructing a state that prioritizes the happiness of its society. In the modern context, Al-Farabi’s thoughts can serve as inspiration and guidance for societies in developing inclusive, just, and sustainable political systems. The holistic concept of political wisdom reminds us of the significance of integrating moral, spiritual, and rational values in the decision-making process. By considering these aspects, a state can create conditions that support the happiness and perfection of individuals.

Rethinking Daoism as Activism: The Political Wisdom of Daoist Texts as a Response to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis

Rethinking Daoism as Activism: The Political Wisdom of Daoist Texts as a Response to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis

Research on the intelligent path of college students’ network ideological and political education based on big data mining technology

Abstract As big data mining technology is known to directly change the development direction and internal management, and the behaviour of college students’ political wisdom network has also changed significantly, hence the application and analysis of data mining technology becomes indispensable. Bidirectional gated cyclic cell network can solve the gradient disappearance or gradient explosion existing in traditional models, but can also make up for the deficiency of extracting the contextual semantic information of long text effectively. Using the combination of big data-based mining technology and college students’ network ideology and politics, this paper designed a set of BiGRU_Attention framework based on college students’ network ideological wisdom framework and adopted big data mining technology to collect data. First, according to the Internet technology and information collection, design a complete set of college students’ ideological wisdom framework. Then, the GRU structure, BiGRU framework and Attention mechanism combined with BiGRU_Attention model are introduced. Meanwhile, Word2Vec is used to train the Chinese word vector. Finally, the BiGRU_Attention proposed in this paper is compared with several models. Experimental results show that the BiGRU_Attention proposed in this paper has a better accuracy of 96.32% over other models. The experimental results also show that the framework of ideological and political intelligence proposed in this paper can be applied to the campus environment of college students.

The Wisdom of the People and the Elite

Abstract John McCormick's ‘democratic’ interpretation of Machiavelli depends on the view that Machiavelli unequivocally endorses the people's moral and political wisdom over that of princes and the elite alike. Leo Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli offers a means for appraising the anthropological basis of this reading, which is yet to appear in the scholarship. Strauss argues that Machiavelli reduces human nature to the mere desire to stay alive. The people will therefore choose whatever political option stands to offer them the best chance for survival, and, this being equivocal to them, they are just as likely to opt for democracy as they are to raise up a tyrant. From this anthropology also emerges a strand of intellectual elitism in Machiavelli, which is incompatible with what McCormick considers to be Machiavelli's staunch anti-elitism. This article therefore uses Strauss to challenge McCormick's reading of Machiavelli as a populist, arguing that McCormick exaggerates Machiavelli's populist partisanship.

Political wisdom of the Kajang "Ammatoa" indigenous community in South Sulawesi

Democracy, which is implemented in Indonesia through general elections (Elections), places the community as a whole as the holder of people's sovereignty. This is guaranteed in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia (UUD). However, the implementation of people's sovereignty is still a problem, because there is still a low understanding of the people's sovereignty that they have, especially in elections. One component of society that also has political sovereignty is indigenous communities, especially in South Sulawesi, namely the Kajang "Ammatoa" indigenous community. Therefore, this study examines the meaning of political sovereignty in the Kajang indigenous community "Ammatoa" and the local wisdom owned and implemented in the 2019 elections, including the 2020 Regional Head Election (Pilkada) in Bulukumba Regency. The method used is descriptive qualitative, and the processed data is primary and secondary. This research begins with the identification and formulation of problems, data collection, data processing, and analysis, including data classification and reduction, drawing conclusions, and verification. The results of this study; (1) Although the Kajang indigenous community is closed, the application of democratic values has been realized for a long time and has become its main local wisdom in choosing leaders called "ammatoa" (traditional chairmen). That is, "ammatoa" is democratically elected and not because of the principle of blood or hereditary ties (traditional leadership); (2) The meaning of democracy and political wisdom, also expressed in elections and regional elections, "ammatoa" as a leader gives freedom to its citizens to choose according to their beliefs without any intervention. So, even though there are "ammatoa" children who became Caleg in the 2019 elections, they were not elected; (3) responsibility as a citizen is also evident in the high level of participation of the Kajang indigenous community in elections and regional elections, even though initially there were cultural and administrative obstacles. This proves that the Kajang indigenous community has practiced the meaning of popular sovereignty for a long time and has become a form of political wisdom. As a suggestion, it is necessary to make a follow-up study that captures the meaning of people's sovereignty in other indigenous communities as a reference in formulating inclusive election policies in Indonesia.

Literatura carcelaria en los Andes: indigeneidad y nacionalismos en Perú y Bolivia

This essay develops a comparative analysis between two prison texts produced in Peru and Bolivia. In my reading hypothesis, the novel El sexto (1961), by José María Arguedas, and the autobiographical account Bolivia: cemetery of freedom (1955), by René López Murillo, establish, starting from the prison as the setting and the indigenous figure as a character, alternatives and criticisms of the authoritarian nationalist discourses mobilized in Peru and Bolivia in the mid-twentieth century. These same anti-establishment practices, however, are not exempt from contradictions. As this essay demonstrates, whether out of admiration and respect in El Sexto, or with the absolute distance posed by the autobiographical narrator in López Murillo's story, the representation of the indigenous subject and, consequently, the assessment of his difference, are subjected to parameters that, if not fully equated with authoritarian discourses of integration and acculturation, do minimize indigenous agency on the horizon of the national community. Instead of that agency, these narratives reinforce the exceptionality of the indigenous subject in the prison setting and in the nation itself. In El Sexto, the construction of the political wisdom of the character Cámac elevates his representation to the condition of ideal model for nationality. In Bolivia, the disingenuous presence of Kenta, the indigenous character, among the political prisoners constitutes a remarkable deviation from expectations. I propose that both, idealization and caricature seem to inform the limitation that the narrators of these texts confront when trying to include or reject the representation of the indigenous within the codes shared by a presumably non-Indian audience of readers.

Skjönsberg, Max. The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Skjönsberg, Max. <i>The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain</i>

Kazimierza Sośnickiego pedagogika polityczna. Zapomniany dyskurs

The understanding of political pedagogy by Kazimierz Sośnicki as a kind of comparative pedagogy studies on the relationship between political systems and the educational system, as well as the goals, contents and effects of school actions. Main issues of these studies and their results. A special lecture on fascist and Nazi pedagogy at the secret University in Lviv. Other forms of practicing political pedagogy in interwar Poland. The processes of reproduction of authoritarian systems in the research of M. S. Archer. Linguistic confusion in our public sphere. Hopes for continuations. I intend to contribute to the memento of an important trend in Polish pedagogy, abandoned after the war. In my opinion, it should be included in pedagogy and education. It is necessary both in pedagogy and pedagogical practice to educate for critical political wisdom. In the face of the disarray of political structures and the language of public debates, it is necessary to develop the capacity for an independent position, over partial divisions and fighting. The subject of political pedagogy was practiced with a gusto in the 1930s.

Machiavelli and Mao Zedong, the Comparison Across Centuries

With similar background conditions of the two great political thinkers, Mao Zedong and Machiavelli shared some similar political wisdom in gaining and ruling the throne. However, as a Communist that innately has a significant number of idealistic beliefs and doctrines within, Mao differed greatly from a purely pragmatic politician. This paper analyzes the similarities and differences in thoughts between Mao Zedong, the founding leader of the People’s Republic of China, and Machiavelli, the famous Italian Renaissance writer who introduced realism and pragmaticism to the European world. Mao’s political career is divided into two primary stages in this essay, which are the pre-proclamation and post-proclamation of the formation of People’s Republic of China. The differences in time eras and political ideologies between Mao and Machiavelli made Mao unable to be qualified entirely as a Machiavellian. Rather, Mao should be considered as a pragmatic Communist leader with realist traits similar to the ones discussed in Machiavelli’s books and thoughts.

Promise of Anger and Dissident Kinship

Abstract This article interrogates and explores the value, potential, politics, and limits of anger in queer and trans kinship. Taking into account dominant forms of anger as exclusionary and marginalizing and subversive forms of anger as transformative and coalitional, this article centers anti-caste queer political moments and Dalit queer assertions and modes of political organizing to understand how anger is mobilized in the Indian context, the significance it accrues, and the meanings it assumes. This article seeks to understand how certain forms of anger become legitimized in the name of queerness, homogeneity, and strategic necessity while anger, and political wisdom revealed through it, embodied by multiply marginalized, oppressed-caste trans and queer people come to be vilified, stigmatized, pathologized, and marked as an expression of betrayal. The notion of illegitimacy associated with oppressed-caste trans and queer people's anger reveals casteism within queer spaces and exposes the threat such subversive anger and wisdom poses to casteist pragramatism and universality sought by dominant-caste queer people. This article shows the work that both dominant and subjugated forms of anger do and what it means for queer and trans kinship.

The Appreciation and Criticism of the Young Chinese Zhihu Netizens to ex-President Trump of the United States

Since former U.S. President Trump took office, Chinese state media have generally painted a negative picture of him and formed a negative public opinion. However, in Chinese social media, Trump still enjoys a high reputation and has even gained a large number of supporters, including, of course, a large number of opponents. This article explored the popular evaluation of President Trump by young Zhihu netizens through a qualitative content analysis of a post on the Zhihu website, and analyzed the reasons for the formation of the opposing evaluations by netizens. The result showed that 43% of netizens positively evaluated Trump as the great president who saved the United States, while 40% condemned Trump as "The second Hoover." From a neutral point of view, Trump is seen as a president with first-class dreams but second-class political wisdom. Further analysis revealed that for netizens with positive comments, individualism, pragmatism, dissatisfaction with the social status quo, and the influence of the mode of public opinion confrontation are the main reasons why they praise Trump. Netizens who hold a negative evaluations are strongly influenced by China's traditional political culture and official public opinion, as well as the trend of the "rise of the East and decline of the West," which led them to follow the Chinese "Meritocracy Political Model" in evaluating Trump. This study revealed the current situation of ideological and value opposition among highly educated young in China.