Categories politics political philosophy’s hidden assumption: the person Post author By G Post date Jul 23, 2026 No Comments on political philosophy’s hidden assumption: the person Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it. Tags citizenship, continuity, democracy, ethics, hegel, Hobbes, human dignity, identity, institutions, Kant, legal personhood, liberalism, Locke, moral responsibility, Nozick, Parfit, personal identity, personhood, Philosophy, philosophy of law, political ontology, political philosophy, political recognition, political science, political theory, Rawls, relational identity, relational philosophy, rights, social ontology