Applying external scientific knowledge - i.e. knowledge achieved in the field of disciplines and sub-disciplines related to political science - in fulfiling such methodological functions as explanation and prevision (forecasting) is frequently approached in meta-scientific and meta-theoretical considerations as conducted on the ground of the family of scientific disciplines constituted by the sciences of politics. These functions can be ascribed to the purely epistemological aspect of scientific activity, not its institutional and organizational aspects. The dispute regarding the explanatory autonomy of political science is fallacious. From the logical and methodological point of view, the institutional “affiliation” of object knowledge, which constitutes a premise in complex inferences, does not play a role in the fulfilment of the assumed cognitive tasks; what is important instead is its epistemological credibility, as well as the goals of the research strategy selected by a given scholar.
Contemporary public debate less and less touches the key issues for the traditional philosophy of politics, and more and more focused on very form of the statements. The political correctness reduces serious, profound discussions and causes, that some philosophical problems are “untouchable”. Many issues brought up publicly are starting being subject to an evaluation in aesthetic categories. The aim of the article is to show the contemporary context of designating the external conditions for practicing political philosophy and to present an overview of the factors affecting the framework of content and formal frames such debate.
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Współczesna debata publiczna w coraz mniejszym stopniu dotyka najważniejszych zagadnień dla tradycyjnej filozofii polityki, a coraz bardziej koncentruje się na samej formie wypowiedzi. Poprawność polityczna ogranicza poważne i istotne społeczne dyskusje oraz powoduje, że niektóre problemy filozoficzne stają się „nietykalne”. Wiele poruszanych publicznie kwestii zaczyna podlegać ocenie w kategoriach estetycznych. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie współczesnego kontekstu wyznaczającego zewnętrzne warunki uprawiania filozofii politycznej i ukazanie w zarysie czynników wpływających na ramy treściowe i formalne takiej debaty.
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