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This article seeks to question the Manichean understanding of the theoretical approach to politics, on the one hand, a kind of political philosophy equated with a specific type of moral philosophy oriented to ground the politics, & on the other one, the political theory as a second-order theorizing of political science or a mixed (empiric-normative) form of inquiry in politics. Arguing against that contrasting & entrenched dualism, the following pages advance a reinterpretation of the nature of political philosophy in the contemporary context through an examination of its distinctive tasks, promoting unexplored missions & bringing to bear an interdisciplinary & action-oriented perspective for the normative theory building about politics. The general hypothesis developed in this paper is that political philosophy & normative political theory are interchangeable, thinking & evaluating the political life not in terms of abstract & ahistorical moral language but getting an insight more sensitive to the real world of politics. In order to do so, the political philosophy concerns to capture properly a political domain & its varied dimensions, evaluates political institutions & tries to identify the possibilities of changes. In any case, although normative political theory cannot make dictate what the citizens have to do, it can help them to choose & to form a reasonable, attentive & therefore prudential political judgment. References. Adapted from the source document.