Stephay Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 Is politics a human science? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossih Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 Hi! It sort of depends I guess. It's a social science for sure, so I guess you could say it's a human science. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sceptyczka Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 (edited) Hi! According to Wikipedia a human science is a philosophy and approach to science that seeks to understand human experience in deeply subjective, personal, historical, contextual, cross-cultural, political, and spiritual terms so this would mean that Politics is indeed a human science. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_science#Later_development Edited August 23, 2014 by Sceptyczka Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aniruddh Posted August 18, 2014 Report Share Posted August 18, 2014 But again, according to Wikipedia: Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, nation, govern... So if you're talking about political science, then it is a social science, but I fail to see the difference between politics and political science. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Sebastian Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 How could politics be a science, when the vast majority of its practitioners don't even pretend to employ the scientific method? And Sceptyczka, that definition doesn't remotely fit the meaning of "science" at all (how is science "subjective" and "spiritual?") Aniruddh, I don't think most politicians use or care about the findings of political scientists. There's a pretty big gulf between politics and political "science", which, even in its most academic, theoretical forum, hardly fits the definition. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrashmaster Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 If we're talking about in terms of ToK, then definitely politics would be a human science as an area of knowledge. Human science is kind of the big melting pot of areas of knowledge for all subjects that don't fit in the others. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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