What is Political Philosophy?

The advent of the Second World War has not only destroyed the social, economic, and moral fabric of human society, the global conflict also erased humankind’s faith in reason itself. The rise of fascism and Nazism in Europe meant that men and women no longer believed in reason. After the end of the war, political philosophy became an abstraction of society's aspirations. Human civilization lost its passion in pursuing the moral good. Echoing Machiavelli, people point to the distinction between the real and the ideal in politics. Even philosophy itself turned to language. Politics meant nothing to scholars who would rather do linguistic analysis.