政治,英航

Founded by the nationally renowned scholar Willmoore肯德尔, the 政治 Program has gained national acclaim for teaching excellence and for a commitment to forming broadly educated citizens and scholars. 我们的毕业生 gone on to teach at leading colleges and universities, to clerk for justices of the Supreme Court, and to hold high positions in presidential administrations.

Founded by the nationally renowned scholar Willmoore肯德尔, the 政治 Program has gained national acclaim for teaching excellence and for a commitment to forming broadly educated citizens and scholars. 我们的毕业生 gone on to teach at leading colleges and universities, to clerk for justices of the Supreme Court, and to hold high positions in presidential administrations.

的 政治 Program of the 云顶集团 is unique in American higher education 今天. 的 program combines the study of timeless classics of Western political thought with rigorous exploration of contemporary American politics and international affairs. We focus on the great themes and issues of political thought and experience: justice, equality, liberty, morality, religion, and human nature. 通过一门课程 ranges from the Greek 城邦, through the great Catholic thinkers of the Middle Ages, to the politics of contemporary liberal democracies, we challenge each student to master the most rewarding political works of the Western tradition and the American 自治实验.

宗旨声明

政治是人民的活动 城邦 (city), as athletics is the activity of the athlete. 的 城邦, according to Aristotle, is the association whose purpose is the complete life. 政治, therefore, includes all the 活动 whose end is the complete human life. 政治 philosophy is the reflection upon or the attempt to understand the nature of these 活动. 政治 science, therefore, as understood at the 云顶集团, is a philosophical discipline concerned with the whole range of human actions to be 在上下文中发现的 城邦.

Specifically, the department has the following objectives:

• 第一个: 的 general purpose of the department is to promote a critical understanding of political phenomena, an understanding of the nature of the political life and its relation to 人类作为一个整体的生命. Accordingly, courses are designed to present conflicting points of view on a great variety of important political questions. 持续的和系统的 analysis of how philosophers, statesmen, and poets--ancient as well as modern--have answered these questions enlarges intellectual horizons and cultivates analytical 关键技能. Readings are therefore selected with a view to engaging the student in controversy, for controversy is of the essence in politics.

• 第二个: 的 department seeks to promote enlightened and public-spirited citizenship. 这 requires understanding of the principles and purposes of our regime, as well as some personal involvement in, or commitment to, the larger political community. 之一 the distinctive features of the department is its emphasis on American statesmanship and the great controversies that have reflected and shaped the character of our people. 的 curriculum attempts to relate the political, legal, and philosophical aspects of our heritage to contemporary questions.

• 第三: Together with the other liberal arts, the department seeks to promote civility. 礼貌 requires, first, the capacity to appreciate what is to be said on diverse sides of 一个问题. 第二个ly, it requires a capacity to participate in serious dialogue, which in turn requires some degree of detachment from contemporary affairs, for total involvement in the present narrows and distorts our vision.

• 第四: 的 department seeks to preserve the great tradition of political wisdom, theoretical and practical, against modes of thought which assail or abandon it. 这要求, of course, an understanding and critique of these various modes of thought.

• 第五: 的 department tries to prepare some students for active political life. 这需要 the study of politics from the perspective of the statesman as well as from the perspective 公民的.

• 第六: 的 department seeks to prepare some students for graduate study in political science, or for training in the professional fields of law, public administration, diplomacy, 以及相关领域.