Parte de:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00bfQu\u00e9 es la Filosof\u00eda Pol\u00edtica? \/ I. El problema de la Filosof\u00eda Pol\u00edtica<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Por Le\u014dnardus Str\u016bthi\u014d<\/span><\/p>\n\n The useful work done by the men called political scientists is independent of any aspiration towards \u201cscientific\u201d political science. It consists of careful and judicious collections and analyses of politically relevant data. To understand the meaning of this work, we remind ourselves of or provisional definition of political philosophy. Political Philosophy is the attempt to understand the nature of political things. Before one can even think of attempting to understand the nature of political things, one must know political things: one must possess political knowledge. At least every sane adult possesses political knowledge to some degree. Everyone knows something of taxes, police, law, jails, war, peace, armistice. Everyone knows that the aim of war is victory, that war demands the supreme sacrifice and many other other deprivations, that bravery deserves praise and cowardice deserves blame. Everyone knows that buying a shirt, as distinguished from casting a vote, is not in itself a political action. The man in the street is supposed to possess less political knowledge than the men who make it their business to supply him with information and guidance regarding political things. He certainly possesses less political knowledge than very intelligent men of long and varied political experience. At the top of the ladder we find the great statesman who possesses political knowledge, political understanding, political wisdom, political skill in the highest degree: political science<\/span> (\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03bc\u03b7) in the original meaning of the term.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Next paragraph<\/a><\/p>\n Previous paragraph<\/a><\/p>\n El <\/span>fruct\u00edfero<\/span> trabajo <\/span>realizado por los denominados cient\u00edficos sociales es <\/span>independiente de cualquier aspiraci\u00f3n a una ciencia pol\u00edtica <\/span>\u00ab<\/span>cient\u00edfica<\/span>\u00bb<\/span>. Consiste en <\/span>una cuidadosa y juiciosa<\/span> compilaci\u00f3n y <\/span>an\u00e1lisis de datos pol\u00edticamente relevantes. Para <\/span>entender <\/span>el significado de este trabajo, recordemos nuestra definici\u00f3n provisional de filosof\u00eda pol\u00edtica. La filosof\u00eda pol\u00edtica es el intento de <\/span>entender<\/span> la naturaleza de las <\/span>cuestiones p<\/span>ol\u00edticas. Antes de siquiera pensar en intentar comprender la naturaleza de <\/span>los asuntos pol\u00edticos<\/span>, uno debe <\/span>saber de alg\u00fan asunto pol\u00edtico<\/span>: uno debe poseer conocimiento pol\u00edtico. Todo hombre adulto <\/span>en pleno uso de sus facultades <\/span>mental<\/span>es<\/span> posee un determinado nivel de conocimientos pol\u00edticos. Todos sabemos algo sobre los impuestos, la polic\u00eda, la ley, las c\u00e1rceles, la guerra, la paz o el armisticio. Todos <\/span>sabemos<\/span> que el objetivo de la guerra es la victoria, que la guerra exige el sacrificio supremo y muchas otras privaciones, que la valent\u00eda <\/span>es digna de elogios<\/span> y la cobard\u00eda <\/span>conlleva el oprobio<\/span>. Todos saben que comprar una camisa, a diferencia de emitir un voto, no es en s\u00ed mismo una acci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica. Se supone que el hombre de la calle <\/span>posee un <\/span>conocimiento pol\u00edtico <\/span>m\u00e1s reducido <\/span>que <\/span>el de <\/span>los hombres que se dedican a proporcionarle informaci\u00f3n y orientaci\u00f3n sobre cuestiones pol\u00edticas. <\/span>Se da por sentado que posee un conocimiento pol\u00edtico muy reducido en comparaci\u00f3n con aqu\u00e9l de los <\/span>hombres muy inteligentes con una larga y variada experiencia pol\u00edtica. <\/span>Pero, en la c\u00faspide, encontraremos a<\/span>l gran estadista que posee conocimientos pol\u00edticos, <\/span>raciocinio<\/span> pol\u00edtic<\/span>o<\/span>, sabidur\u00eda pol\u00edtica, habilidad pol\u00edtica en el grado m\u00e1s alto: ciencia pol\u00edtica <\/span>(\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03bc\u03b7)<\/span> en el sentido original del t\u00e9rmino.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Siguiente p\u00e1rrafo<\/a><\/p>\n P\u00e1rrafo anterior<\/a><\/p>\n Ir al inicio de esta entrada<\/a><\/p>\nLe<\/span>\u014d<\/span>nard<\/span>\u012b<\/span> Str\u016bt<\/span>h<\/span>i\u014dnis<\/span> verba<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
Hisp<\/span>\u0101<\/span>nice<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n