unit-5-political-arguments-and-conceptual-analysis

Unit-5 Political Arguments And Conceptual Analysis

The prime objective of this unit is to understand the nature of political arguments and the purpose of conceptual analysis in political theory.

Examine Hermerneutics as an alternative to the emprical-behavioural tradition?

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Written on Apr 16, 2019 5:43:08 PM

  • Interpretive theorists point out several problems with the positivist method. They criticise the empiricist approach for assuming a disjuncture between political life and language of that political life.
  • In other words, they criticise empiricism for its assumption that there is a political reality that exists and that in principle can be discovered independently of the language of that polity and for, downplaying internal connection between social/political life on the one hand, and the language that is embedded in it, on the other.