Lessons in Political Theory

Abstract

This investigation intents to give an answer to some of the radical questions of our days, only that this time, from, the look of the Political Theory, understanding this as the set of knowledge and practices that the human beings have deployed in order to constitute political communities. Thus, his study is organized into two large groups that obey to the profound division between classical antiquity and modernity: Governing together and Governing others. To achieve the above, we go back to The Athenian Polis, The Roman Res Publica, the Florentine Republic and the end of the question for political freedom, to reach the period from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Such a great task requires as a request for principle to be carried out in several stages, since what has been developed here has been and is discussed in the permanent cathedra of Political Theory of Universidad Libre -Bogotá-, which is interdisciplinary, and is composed in its base by students of philosophy and law of the same University, but has also had the assistance of students and professionals from other universities. This leads to highlighting at every moment the arrival point that the founders of Universidad Libre set out as one in which our knowledge and know are at the service of human dignity, seeking to contribute to the formation of free men and good habits.