Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy that studies the fundamentals about the political issue, such as power, freedom, justice. The property, rights and application in a legal code by the authority, in terms of its origin, essence, limits, legitimacy, nature, need and scope. Political philosophy refers to a general perspective, an ethic, belief or specific activity, that politics must have and it is not necessary that it must remain in the technical discipline of philosophy.
Political philosophy has varied throughout history, for the Greeks the city was the center and the end of all political activity, in the Middle Ages it is the historical period that goes from the 5th to the 15th century of all political activity that focused on in the relationships that the human being must maintain with the order given by God.
The renaissance of political philosophy adopts a basically anthropocentric approach which is a doctrine at the level of epistemology that studies the methods and foundations of scientific knowledge situated by the human being as a measure of all things. In the modern and contemporary world where many models arise and coexist, ranging from totalitarianisms, which is the political regime that concentrates all state powers, to participatory democratic systems where there are many variants.
The political philosophy together with the values and customs that existed during the Middle Ages that is also related to political science, which studies the political structures that is responsible for how they should be but often used to justify actions policies.
