인문학과 정치학 = Political Studies as Humanities

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Every society has to perform some form of project in the name of community from time to time. And truth matters, at the least, as to whether the project is indeed to the interest of the community. The societal capability to find truth when it matters regarding the common project signals the depth of commonality of a society. This paper stresses three points in terms of which the truth-finding capability can be developed in individual minds: critical understaning of grammatical frames in which our language make sense, a certain sense of balance to discern when it is worthwhile to dig into the truth of the matter and how far, and conceptual clarity to distinguish between voices of truth and power contained in every statement one happens to come across. Developing this capability is one of the main tasks of intellectual pursuits called humanities. The role in human societies of humanities is to elaborate, on the one hand, the outlook from which truths of whatever matters are put in view independently of external and irrelevant influences, and, on the other, the perspective in which the student sees where he or she stands in relation to the linguistic community he or she belongs to. Here arises the point as a corollary that political studies are characteristically closer to humanities than to sciences. To study societies is to study human beings, and to study them in their languages. Descriptions of human behavior ought to pass the test what sense the actors make of them, whereas it is simply irrelevant to ask what sense the subjects whose behavior is described by scientists make of the descriptions. Political studies is more like to hit close the mark when it proceeds as a form of human studies.

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