Teaching Political Theory: Meaning through Metaphor
Improving College and University TeachingPublished 1 November 1984
Judith A. Best
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If I were compelled to state my ultimate goal for my political theory students I'd have to quote George Santayana, who said, Hardly anybody except possibly the Greeks at their best has realized the sweetness and glory of being a rational animal. My goal for my Why is it that there is often resistance to thinking, to the life of the mind? Why do students believe that political theory must be an arcane and difficult subject? I offer a generalization. Most minds find abstract reasoning alien. Most minds are at least initially hostile
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Social Sciences