![]() In the course of that pursuit, political scientists have uncovered or identified certain architectonic principles, seminal ideas, and plain political truths which capture the reality of political life or some significant segment of it, and relate that reality to the larger principles of justice and political order and to very practical yet normative civic purposes.Ĭovenant is one of the major recurring principles of political import which informs and encompasses all three themes - an idea which defines political justice, shapes political behavior, and directs humans toward an appropriately civic synthesis of the two in their effort to manage political power. ![]() Political science as a discipline was founded and has developed in pursuit of those three concerns. Human, and hence scholarly, concern with politics focuses on three general themes: 1) the pursuit of political justice to achieve the good political order 2) the search for understanding of the empirical reality of political power and its exercise and 3) the creation of an appropriate civic environment through political society and political community capable of integrating the first two to produce a good political life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Covenant as a Political Concept The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Volume 1, Chapter 1 ![]()
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