The Human Nature and Political Theory

The relationship between human nature and political theory is one of the most important debates in the analytical study of any political theory. Generally, political thinkers base their ideas about the legitimacy of their theories about policy and government on their own explanation and understanding of human nature. The main idea of this research is that human nature cannot and should not be considered as an important issue merely in politics and political theory as in the case of justice, equality and or freedom; rather, it is, in fact, a framework, in which political theory and perception of politics takes form. If special attention is given to the issue of human nature, then many details about political theory will be concealed, because some inconsistencies and ambiguities in political theories can be ascribed to the ambiguity about and incoherence in the conception of the political theoreticians of human nature. In political ideas and political theories, in particular, fundamentality of human nature means that human nature, in fact, forms the framework, in which political theory is formed. Our conception of human nature clarifies the kind of content which the aim of political theory should have.