Peeling liberalism from democracy
After 18 months studying International Relations at Griffith University, I've learnt what the meaning of political science is. However it is in kind to consider politics as a science, I'm still as an undergrad concerned for the truism in this ideal. Politics of course has no phenomenological authority separate of humanity. Humanities order, the governing principles of interactions in war and peace, and the process divulgements and dissolutions, are politics. These are a complex range of principles, theories, and practices, and they may be recorded, and known linguistically with good and rightful authority, but they can't exist independent of us, and we who perceive this politics. This confers to me a substantial problem in describing politics as a science, where in fact what one's referring to is the array of practices in philosophical inquiry, sociological and psychological analysis, and the relative merits of this in ultimate objectivity of power. A power of persuasi...