An Introduction to Political Philosophy

ISBN: 9781440085246 出版年：2016 页码：229 Henry Percy Farrell Forgotten Books

Political philosophy cannot be learnt from text-books. If it be true -That nature always does contriveThat every boy and every galThat's born into the world aliveIs either a little Liberal,Or else a little Conservative,then the most interesting problems of political philosophy must remain matters of controversy. It is perhaps for this reason that students are generally asked to approach the subject by way of the study of the writings of certain political philosophers that are generally regarded as classical. Or it may be because, as Aristotle said -It would probably be right to suppose that not only these but all other political discoveries have been made repeatedly, or rather an infinite number of times in the lapse of ages... It is our duty then while we avail ourselves adequately of the discoveries of the past, to endeavour to fill up the deficiencies that remain (Politics, Bk. IV. chap. 10).