Question

Difference between Political theory and Political Science​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Political science, political philosophy and political theory, all are vaguely used to denote the same field of study.

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Political science is the main domain and it’s various sub domains can be classified either as ‘philosophy’ or ‘theory’.

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Political philosophy define what qualify as political theory based on ‘reasoning’ and philosophical methods.

Political theory establishes, define and details the theories using the theoretical methods.

For example,

Political science includes study of every aspects about fascism, socialism, capitalism etc.

Political philosophy defines how fascism, socialism, capitalism etc can be validated as political theory.

Political theory defines economic, social and other theories for fascism, socialism, capitalism etc.

When same terminologies are used for pure science discipline like PHYSICS, It might resemble with something like following,

Physics → Philosophy of physics → Theories of physics

Includes everything of physics → includes philosophy about what qualify as ‘theory’ in physics → includes theories.

(physical science and physics are different