СОЦИАЛЬНО-ФИЛОСОФСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО КАК ПРЕДПОСЫЛКА ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ТЕОРИИ(The social-philosophical analysis of political as background of the political theory)

This article describes the methodological background of political theory. The author pays attention to the subject of political philosophy – the political world. representations of which show meaningful presentation of human existence as bios politikos. For the analysis of the political world it is important to define the essence of the political. The article presents a typology of the political: political as antagonistic, political as agonistic, and political as imaginary and symbolic. Defining the essence of the political concerns ontological foundations of the political world. Analyzing the political world as a matter of political philosophy, the author pays attention to the phenomenon of the polis. The concept of the polis reveals the universal principles of organization of political society and the ways of their philosophical understanding. Another aspect is the consideration of the ontology of the political world in connection with the representation of human existence as bios politikos. The author defines it as a kind of universal principle of the political philosophy. Original premise of political theory is the interpretation of the phenomena of the political world. The political can be understood as the inner meaning of phenomena. Another prerequisite of political theory is a reflection of the political order, which manifests itself as a system of government and provides the identity of the political world. In summary, the author notes that the review of meta-philosophical foundations of political theory is very important for understanding the contemporary political life, when the political manifests itself in various forms, significantly different from traditional forms. Reflection on the political world as the subject of political philosophy, as well as on general assumptions of the theoretical understanding of politics, makes it possible to identify universal characteristics of the political and implement a kind of "return" to.)