Politics must be established as an autonomous science within any coherent worldview

Evidence

The first question that must be raised and resolved in a study of Machiavelli is the question of politics as an autonomous science, of the place that political science occupies or should occupy in a systematic (coherent and logical) conception of the world, in a philosophy of praxis. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 624

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Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Frames ‘politics as autonomous science’ as a foundational question for the philosophy of praxis.

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• Machiavelli’s work is political action, not utopian blueprint or abstract science. (similarity 0.83)
• Politics has relatively autonomous forms requiring study in their own right (similarity 0.82)
• The science of politics asks whether the ruler-ruled division is eternal or only historical (similarity 0.82)
• Machiavelli must be read as historically situated, not as a timeless political scientist (similarity 0.81)
• Machiavelli’s political theory centers on securing permanent consent through the art of governing. (similarity 0.80)
• Understanding politics fully requires expertise in psychology (similarity 0.80)
• Political stances must be judged by whether they stand alone or answer other forces (similarity 0.80)
• Machiavelli wrote to give political education to those not born into ruling traditions (similarity 0.79)
• Science is political activity because it transforms what men are (similarity 0.79)