بررسي «امر سياسي» در انديشه ارسطو و هانا ‌آرنت و نقد جايگاه

Politics in the Thought of Aristotle and Hanna Arendt: A Critic of Political Concept and its Function in Our Time

سياست و امر سياسي به زعم بسياري از پژوهشگران علوم سياسي در عصر مدرن دچار نوعي استحاله و انحراف شده است و جايگاه راستين و كاركرد واقعي و اصيل خويش را به مثابه ابزاري براي نيل به سعادت و سامان سياسي بشري از دست داده است. به بياني ديگر جاي سياست در اجتماع را علايق اقتصادي و معيشتي گرفته است و حتي ريشه بسياري از مصايب انسان معاصر را بايد در اين جابجايي يافت. پژوهش حاضر در يك مطالعه تطبيقي، چيستي امر سياسي در انديشه ارسطو به مثابه فيلسوف سياسي كلاسيك و هانا آرنت به‌عنوان متفكر سياسي معاصر را مورد بررسي قرار داده و نسبت رويكرد اين دو انديشمند به چيستي امر سياسي را مورد تحليل و تطبيق قرار مي‌دهد و بر آن است كه از اين طريق به فهمي ديگر از چيستي امر سياسي و نسبت آن با آنچه در عصر معاصر سياست ناميده مي‌شود دست يابد.

Politics and political subject in opinion of scholars and many political scientists have somehow undergone transmutation and departure from its old and classical definition and function. It has lost its true place and function as a mean of providing happiness and political order for humanity. Arendt argues that the economic interest of citizens has replaced the classical notion of political objectives and this replacement has been the source of much human hardship in our time. This article is a comparative study of Aristotle’s political thought as a classical philosopher and Arnedt as a contemporary thinker on the meaning of what political objective ought to be. It is an attempt to have a comparison of their approach for a better understanding of what the subject of politics should be in our contemporary world.