ABSTRACT
It is clear that, as a scholarly discipline, political philosophy does not mean the general orientation or the leading ideas inspiring in a partisan way a political actor – as it is understood in common parlance. Normative political philosophy, on the other hand, is interested in determining what the best values and principles in giving order to the polity are with respect to human nature or God's will or other worldviews, including the image of a social bond established by an assumed social contract. Social philosophy is not the closest relative of political philosophy, and is even less so interchangeable with it. Beyond political philosophy and political science, a third party or gender has struggled to be identified: political theory. This label has been seen for a long time as a namesake for political philosophy, but cannot be said to be endowed with the same relevance and autonomy as its two elder cousins.
