ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines how politics works and what it sets out both within political units and among them or globally. It also examines how politics interacts or should interact with other attitudes in human action such as morality. A political identity filled with ideal motivations of moral or civic nature can be a powerful driver of political action, though there are hardly any Kantian or Rawlsian politicians. Individuals, as well as groups, do not every single day reinvent their course of action driven by strategy, passion or ideal: in normal times, a major component of their actions is the conformity to the grid of rules that allow for the existence and continuity of the polity, which is also the venue in which to enact the life plans of individuals and groups.
