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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.

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What do you understand by conceptual analysis? Bring out the difference(s) between the positivist and the interpretive accounts of conceptual analysis.

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Written on Apr 16, 2019 5:44:56 PM

  • Concepts are crucial in two senses for scholarly endeavour: as means and as ends. As means, concepts are necessary for understanding; they are conditions for the possibility of knowledge.
  • Positivist: Political philosophy was an adjunct of political science, clarifying the concepts used and arguments to attempt to evacuate them of anything other than descriptive and empirical meaning, so that the terms of political discourse could be used in ways that were neutral between ideological and moral perspectives.
  • Interpretive: The purpose of conceptual analysis is not to reveal the necessary and sufficient condition of the concept or lay bare its internal structure, but to creatively produce new ways of understanding them. Concepts become meaningful by the way they are used and this makes conceptual analysis a complicated, never-ending and contestable affair.