Saturday, January 28, 2023

What is the importance of law, freedom, equality and justice in political science?

  The importance of the concepts of law, freedom, equality and justice in political science

This time in the discussion of political science, I will discuss the importance of the concepts of law, freedom, equality and justice. In the distant past, sophistic thinkers in the Greek city-states, Stoic philosophers in Rome, Plato and Aristotle, among others, expressed their valuable views on the subject. Later liberal political scientists, Marxist theorists, and more recently neo-liberalists have come up with better explanations. Political science as a dynamic subject of sociology cannot be stopped in one place, so the conventional notions about the subjects in question have changed with the changing times.

Law, freedom, equality and justice are closely related. Political scientists have termed the sovereign order as law, but at the same time they have said that the law must not only be recognized, declared and enforced by the state, it must be just and reasonable. On the other hand, just as freedom is meaningless without equality, so is equality without freedom. An analysis of history reveals that the demand for independence arose long before equality. When slavery was practiced in ancient Greece and Rome, not all people were considered equal. At that time the place of freedom was far above equality. In fact, in the American Declaration of Independence (1776) and the French Declaration of Human Rights (1789), the idea of a combination of equality and freedom was first realized.

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