UD Announces Competition for Five Full-Tuition 奖学金
的 Crusader Scholarship is open to all high school seniors who apply to UD.
+阅读更多的 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.
政治 is the activity of the 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.
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 human life as a whole. Accordingly, courses are designed to present conflicting points of view on a great variety of important political questions. 持续 systematic analysis of how philosophers, statesmen, and poets--ancient as well as modern--have answered these questions enlarges intellectual horizons and cultivates 分析和批判技能. 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. Civility requires, first, the capacity to appreciate what is to be said on diverse 问题的两面. 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.
的 Crusader Scholarship is open to all high school seniors who apply to UD.
+阅读更多德克萨斯州欧文市(1月11日. 5, 2024) -探索, a television series developed by the 云顶集团 as seen on the global Catholic network EWTN, has been adapted for radio and will begin airing...
+阅读更多After having served as interim dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts since January of 2023, Professor of 政治 Richard J. Dougherty, MA ’89 PhD ’93, has been appointed dean.
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