政治学哲学博士-政治理论

我们庞大的理论系使我们能够提供整个政治思想史的课程：古代，中世纪，现代和当代。除其他主题外，教师还对政治和文学，人权和女权主义理论有浓厚的兴趣。我们鼓励学生从事相关学科的课程工作，包括哲学，神学，经济学，历史和英语。理科学生也可以使用与校园内特殊中心相关的教职员工，这些特殊中心包括巴黎圣母院高级研究学院，宗教哲学研究中心，道德与文化中心，凯洛格国际研究学院，克罗克国际和平研究所，中世纪研究所，纳诺维奇欧洲研究中心以及基夫全球事务学院的公民与人权中心。
Our large theory faculty enables us to offer courses in the entire history of political thought: ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary. Faculty also have a strong interest in politics and literature, human rights, and feminist theory, among other topics. We encourage students to do course work in related disciplines, including Philosophy, Theology, Economics, History, and English. Theory students also have access to the faculty and fellows associated with special centers located on campus including the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, the Center for the Study of Philosophy of Religion, the Center for Ethics and Culture, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Medieval Institute, the Nanovic Center for European Studies, and the Center for Civil & Human Rights in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Our students have written dissertations on a diverse range of topics such as friendship in political thought, ethical integrity and democratic citizenship, patriotism in a cosmopolitan age, Rousseau on commerce and mores, love and the passions in Augustine's political thought, the life of the mind in Hannah Arendt, natural right and the problem of natural justice, Montesquieu on law and morals, theories of immigration, the family in political life, and Plato's Cratylus, Republic, Laws, and Statesman.