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This 6 page paper reviews Glenn Tinder’s book Political Thinking: The Perennial Questions, considering the contents, the main messages and whether this is a stimulating and engaging book on political thought. The bibliography cites 1 source.
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those studying political philosophy and political theory making this a very stimulating book. The book does not appear to have the aim of imparting facts and specific ideas, but is
designed to increase the readers understanding of looking beyond the initial impressions and questioning what may otherwise be assumed to be true and accurate, it is a book on how
to approach political thinking in an annalistic way, helping the reader loose pre-existing potential biases. The paper tackles several ideas where there is the need of the student
to think and examine juxtapositions with political thinking, including estrangement and unity, inequality and equality, power and its possessors as well as the limits and ends to power and historical
change. However the book begins with the difficult subject of how to go about the process of thinking, despite the fact that Tinder himself argues that teaching a student
to think is very difficult, the teacher can only show how and hope that the student will undertake the process for themselves, the role of the teacher in this is
therefore one of helping by giving encouragement and criticism as the process is being undertaken. As such Tinder argues he cannot teach a student, or anyone else, this think, but
can present some insights that students and teachers alike may find useful, he states "My reason for saying that no one can be taught to think is to focus
at the outset on the dependence of the entire process on the students own solitary efforts. It is both the glory and the burden of thought that it is an
exceedingly personal undertaking. The solitude of the mature thinker must be entered into immediately by the beginner. As the mature thinker thinks all alone, the beginner must learn to think
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