Political Economy Advanced Spring Term 1943
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1943-04-07
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"As decided at the close of the last term we shall concentrate during the coming
months on the nature and structure of society and government. Such a study can
be started in three ways: with the basic beliefs men have been holding regarding
the nature of society and the function and aims of government; with the actual
problems of social life which society and government have been asked to master; and
with the institutions - ranging from the family to the international gold-standard
or the proposed world-court - by means of which societies have been trying to
organize reality and to solve actual problems according to their beliefs and aims.
We shall go the first way - if only because our time demands, above all, clear
beliefs and true values. But we shall not be satisfied with the purely historical
or purely philosophical study of principles and theories. We will also try to learn
how to apply basic concepts, beliefs and values to concrete problems. At the same time
the members of the group will be given an opportunity to do a larger piece of work on
their own."