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dc.creatorAlexander, Rachel Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-23T18:29:39Z
dc.date.available2023-01-23T18:29:39Z
dc.date.created2013
dc.identifierWLURG38_Alexander_thesis_2013
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.wlu.edu/handle/11021/36056
dc.description.abstractFrom yoga and physical fitness to meditation and prayer, from elementary classrooms to neuroscience, contemplation is everywhere. Is there space for contemplation in political philosophy? Philosophy connotes logic. 1 Socrates comes to mind, engaging in rational discourse to reach knowledge, truth, and reality. Contemplation, silent perception of reality and intuition, may then seem at odds with political philosophy. But if we visit our ancestors, the great Greek and medieval thinkers, it becomes clear that rational thought is only half of the process of knowing. They distinguished two modes of knowledge, the ratio and the intellectus. While the ratio encompasses the rational, logical, discursive mode of thought, the imellectus encompasses the contemplative, receptive, non-discursive mode of thought. So philosophy, almost habitually reduced to logic and ratiocination, includes intellectus if it is to properly seek knowledge and truth. This was true of the founders of political philosophy even if no longer true for us. Contemplation and political philosophy belong together; we cannot have one without the other if we are to fully engage and appreciate the mind.en_US
dc.format.extent79 pagesen_US
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dc.subject.otherWashington and Lee University -- Honors in Politicsen_US
dc.titleContemplation in Political Philosophyen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dcterms.isPartOfRG38 - Student Papersen_US
dc.rights.holderAlexander, Rachel Katherineen_US
dc.subject.fastPolitical science -- Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.fastCivilization, Modern -- Philosophyen_US
dc.subject.fastContemplationen_US
local.departmentPoliticsen_US
local.scholarshiptypeHonors Thesisen_US


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