Political Philosophy

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6 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Political Philosophy.

• Accelerationism — A contested family of political-philosophical programs proposing that selected technological, economic or social tendencies should be intensified to force or enable systemic transformation.
• Anarchism — A diverse political philosophy and movement opposing coercive hierarchy and the state while advocating voluntary association, self-organization and non-dominating forms of social cooperation.
• Individualism — A family of moral, political and social doctrines that assigns primary worth, agency or justificatory standing to the individual relative to collective authorities.
• Libertarianism — A family of political philosophies treating individual liberty and personal sovereignty as primary constraints on legitimate coercive power.
• Non-aggression principle — Treat the initiation or threat of force against persons or legitimately held property as presumptively impermissible, while making the underlying theories of rights, ownership, risk, remedy, and defensive force explicit.
• Right of revolution — Assert that a people may, or under some theories must, withdraw obedience and alter or abolish a government after specified breaches destroy its legitimate claim to rule.