The Continental Trend Its Intellectual Departure, and Political Polarities

Abstract

The intellectual productions of human beings are constantly evolving, and this progress is beginning to appear in new intellectual forms, presentations, and styles, to be more attractive to apply and work with, the West had the largest share of that evolution, it began to give development on its thought in general and on political thought in particular after it had gradually developed through the ages, to reach the modern and contemporary era with a comprehensive thought of all philosophical ideas and with a general orientation and a wide-ranging framework, as the thought developed to bring it to a continental intellectual stage and this was called the continental trend, and this trend had intellectual roots dating back to the end of the eighteenth century and to the writings of Immanuel Kant and to something deeper than that much in terms of Platonic and Aristotelian thought. Hence, Western philosophers and thinkers developed the ideas presented by their predecessors and made them of a continental generalization, with the presence of polarities with political thought, working on theorizing to export the ideas they hold to the world to control them and extend the influence of the European continent on the world, in light of the presence and multiplicity of liberal intellectual trends, including liberalism and socialism, the attempt of each of them to make its thought the most applied and dominant trend in the world, and this trend had a clear impact on modernist and even postmodern treatises, its impact is clear even on the Asian world and the Arab world, as it adopted the idea of exporting and promoting thought. Today we are living under the influence of this trend and its ideas.