Politeia

The POLITEIA Research Group is distinguished by its commitment to fostering interdisciplinary research, particularly at the intersection of philosophy, politics, social sciences, law, and literature. Political philosophy constitutes a field of philosophical inquiry concerned with the foundations of political power, its legitimacy, and its constitutive elements. It also examines and advances the fundamental principles underlying debates on key issues of social life related to the exercise of political power, including human rights, identity, difference, peace, citizenship competencies, democracy, and justice. As such, it is a field of knowledge centered on human beings and the environment, focused on social praxis—that is, the ethical and political conditions that underpin the fundamental aims of political life and socioecological relationships.

Within this framework, issues such as globalization, gender, cultural identity, migration, war, forced displacement, and the Anthropocene become meaningful to individuals living in specific places, times, and social contexts when they are able to understand them within a defined political and theoretical framework.