Ep. 27 Why POLSCI? Political Science in the Philippines

The P*I* Podcast

For our first episode this year, we reflect on Political Science as a vocation. While most consider it as a pre-law program, we argue that political science as a systematic approach to the study of public affairs is essential to both understanding and resolving many of our country's most pressing political issues. We also clarify the meaning of “politics” and “scientific” in relation to our discipline

0:00 Music

0:12 Intro

1:50 Political Science as a Pre-law

7:40 The ancient study of politics trying to be young

9:10 The origins of Political Science

11:40 Education of rulers and education of citizens

14:10 How scientific is political science?

18:50 The subjective and objective

24:30 Behavioralism vs New Political Science; "Scientists" and "Activist scholars"

26:40 The role of Political Science in society

31:50 Identifying public friends and enemies

40:20 Political Scientists in democracies and non-demoracies

44:11 What citizens should learn from political science?

58:40 Recommendation

Recommendations and Sources

Adventures in Political Science by Remigio Agpalo

https://shopee.ph/Adventures-in-Political-Science-(Revised-Edition)-i.276147505.7451776313

Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt

https://www.amazon.com/Concept-Political-Expanded-Carl-Schmitt/dp/0226738922

Origins of Political Science by Leo Strauss Lectures

https://leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu/origins-of-political-science-winter-1960/

Six lectures on Socrates and the Origins of Political Science

https://archive.org/stream/LeoStrauss6LecturesOnSokratesTheOriginsOfPoliticalScience1958/Leo%20Strauss%20-%206%20Lectures%20on%20Sokrates%20%26%20the%20Origins%20of%20Political%20Science%20%5B1958%5D_djvu.txt

The tragedy of political science by David Ricci

https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Political-Science-Scholarship-Democracy/dp/0300037600

Political Science as vocation by Robert Keohane

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40647540

History of Political Science by James Farr

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2111205