The abiding problem of politics is ordering the conditions of life in a humanly satisfying way through the creation of objectively effective and subjectively meaningful institutions. Political order is constituted by symbols which represent what is conceived as the truth about the world and our nature as a part within it. The substance of political existence is psyche and hence the discourse that arises from it will always be hermeneutic. Political society is the space we create as historical beings through spiritual freedom. In political existence, institutions replace instinct and meaning replaces need.
Political activity is a human vocation common to all.
It cannot be avoided and must be responded to. It is the weakness of modern political consciousness to think that we can be so transformed as to be delivered from history while acting in history and from political concerns while living in political society or that the desperate modern situation renders political activity worthless. Mature political wisdom knows that neither history nor fate can be bypassed. No expression of truth as represented by political society is ever so final that debate about the truth society claims to represent can be cut off. It is the task of political philosophy to re-imagine this truth.