Abstract
Journalists write about the waves of politics. Political scientists study the deeper currents of political life. Political theorists, I contend, investigate the ocean flows of politics. If political scientists collect and analyze empirical data, then political theorists investigate profound things that cannot be seen with the naked eye such as ontology, epistemology, human nature, and normative criteria. Political theorists may situate political thinkers in their time and place, participate in conversations that have been going on for millennia, compare political theories from different parts of the globe, exchange ideas with other academic disciplines, address the pressing problems of their time, run thought experiments, or do ethnography. In this book, I advocate a pluralistic approach to teaching political theory that uses several styles to prepare students to enter a world of competing and coalescing political philosophies.
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