Unit-2 Theorising The Political

This Unit deals with the various relevant concerns of political philosophising/theorising.

What are the ‘broad’ and the ‘narrow’ view of politics/political phenomenon?

Enumerate and describe the salient features of either the historical or the sociological approach to studying politics.

Distinguish between the philosophical and the integrated approaches to studying politics.

Comment on the autonomous character of political science.

Distinguish between normative and empirical political theory.

Comment on the contemporary relevance of classics of politics.

Discuss the views of either Michael Oakeshott or Hannah Arendt.

Discuss the views of either Eric Voegelin or Christian Bay.

Distinguish between normative and empirical political theory.

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The empirical theorists believe that an empirical science of politics based on facts alone is possible, whereas the others, the trans-empirical theorists, are of the opinion that the study of politics neither can nor should be purely scientific.
The transempiricists, on the other hand, believe that whatever be the situation in the natural sciences, facts and values are so closely inter-twined with each other that, in the study of politics, one can not separate them except in the most trivial instances.