Introduction to Political Science Two Series of LecturesCosimo, Inc., 2005 M12 1 - 396 páginas After a certain time the society thus founded on kindred or common religion or both, becomes aware that its union is a thing valuable for its own sake, that government and organisation and co-operative life are useful in themselves to the individuals who possess them. Hence there springs up the conception of a common good, a common weal, which is independent of such considerations as kindred or religion; by degrees the society disengages itself from these props...-from Introduction to Political ScienceOne of the most important and respected historians of his day was also a beloved professor at Cambridge University, where his classes and lectures were famous for their clarity and enlightenment. It's easy to see why students clamored to be taught by Seeley: in this collection of lectures, delivered in the late 1880s and early 1890s and published posthumously in book form in 1896, he shares his thoughts on methods of studying the past in with such clear-eyed lucidity, in such warm and jargon-free language that complicated concepts are rendered perfectly plain.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Seeley's lectures on The Expansion of England.British classical scholar SIR JOHN ROBERT SEELEY (1834-1895) was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an honorary member of Historical Society of Massachusetts. He is also the author of Ecce Homo. |
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Introduction to Political Science: Two Series of Lectures Sir John Robert Seeley Vista completa - 1908 |
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Página 13 - is the name of a residuum which has been left when one group of facts after another has been taken possession of by some science ; that the residuum which now exists must go the way of the rest, and that the time is not very distant when a science will take possession of the facts which are still the undisputed property of the historian ;" and that the science will be political science.
Página 7 - Wisdom is the principal thing ; therefore get wisdom : and with all thy getting get understanding." We live in a universe which proceeds according to regular laws ; the same causes produce the same effects ; therefore if we would guide ourselves aright we must register what we observe, then we must compare our observations and generalise upon them ; so we shall obtain general laws, and thus the knowledge of the past will lead us to a knowledge of the future. I need not here enter into the old controversies...
Página 15 - For the sociability of man has many aspects, and brings into existence several sciences ; for example, the science of language and economic science. The phenomenon in question is this. As a matter of course human beings, like other animals, are united together in families, and we might be prepared to find the family tie stronger and the family organisation somewhat more developed in them than in inferior animals. But we observe something more, something which, when we think philosophically, — that...
Página 35 - Let us imagine political organisms handled in the same manner ; — it would not be surprising if all the states described by Aristotle, and all the States of modern Europe into the bargain, should yield but a small proportion of the whole number of varieties, while those states less familiar to us, and which our manuals are apt to pass over in silence as barbarous, yielded a far larger number.
Página 15 - ... is seldom quite distinct from the family, and sometimes might be explained away as if it were not distinct at all. Usually, however, it is tolerably distinct. Almost in any place, in any circumstances where a human being might be found, if you questioned him you would find that he considered himself to belong to some large corporation which imposed duties and conferred rights upon him. Each man has a name which belongs to himself alone, and another name which he has in common with all other members...
Página 28 - If we neglect the first process, we shall accumulate facts to little purpose, because we shall have no test by which to distinguish facts which are important from those which are unimportant ; and of course if we neglect the second process, our reasonings will be baseless, and we shall but weave scholastic cobwebs.
Página 4 - It is my point of departure; it is the first aphorism in the system of political science which I am about to expound to you, that this science is not a thing distinct from history but inseparable from it. To call it a part of history might do some violence to the usage of language, but I may venture to say that history without political science is a study incomplete, truncated, as on the other hand political science without history is hollow and baseless — or in one word: History without political...
Página 18 - But we want some one word to denote the large corporation, larger than the family yet usually connected with the family, whatever form it may assume, and the word state is the only word which can be made to serve this purpose. Sometimes it would be better called a tribe or clan, sometimes a church or religion, but whatever we call it the phenomenon is very universal. Almost everywhere men conceive themselves as belonging to some large corporation. They conceive themselves too as belonging to it for...