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Exploring the Importance of Studying Politics: Knowledge, Observation, and Authority

This article delves into the reasons we study politics and the foundational aspects of political knowledge. It addresses the significance of direct observation, reason, and authority as sources of knowledge. Through examples like the law of gravity and historical events, it illustrates how we build a body of knowledge about the political world. Understanding the processes of explanation, description, prediction, and control in politics helps us grasp the intricacies of societal governance and its impact on our lives.

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Exploring the Importance of Studying Politics: Knowledge, Observation, and Authority

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  1. Why Do we Study Politics? what's this all about?

  2. To build a body of knowledge

  3. What does it mean to Know Something? • Explain, Describe, Predict and Control • What are the sources of knowledge? • direct observation • reason • authority

  4. direct observations • observe a sequence of events and see if it recurs in more than one instance. • law of gravity explains a lot, we have seen it happen often • Replicated events

  5. Reason • Even if we haven’t seen a particular thing happen before (observation) it is logical that things will happen in a certain way

  6. Authority • How do we know that Madison and the boys did their thing in 1787? • How do you know that we landed on the moon in 1968?

  7. Which are the most reliable? • observation • reason • authority

  8. what does this mean?

  9. What is this?

  10. Read This:

  11. What is this?

  12. How do we know that the sun rises each morning?

  13. Why do we study politics • build body of knoweldge about the poltical world • explain, describe, predict, control

  14. explain

  15. describe

  16. predict

  17. control

  18. explain describe predict control Why do we study politics?

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