AP ICET 18th Sep 2021 Shift 2 Paper

Question Numbers : (141 to 145)
Read the passage below and choose the correct answel' 141−145
Political science and history are contributory and complementary. It does not however mean that political science is a beggar at the door of history. Nor does it mean "History is past politics or that politics is present history". Political science is undoubtedly dependent on history for its material, but it supplies only a part of the material. History is a chronological narration of events including wars, revolutions, military campaigns, economic upheavals, religious and social movements, and the rest. All this material is not required by political science. The main concern of the political scientist is to study the evolution of the political institutions and the facts that bear directly or indirectly on the state of the government. Political science, thus, selects facts out of history. Furthermore, history deals with concrete and matter of fact things. It presents to us not only facts, but the causal connection between the facts. Political science is speculative as well. since it deals with what the state ought to be. Finally, the historian's task is not to pass moral judgements, but the political scientist is bound to do so. It is here that political science joins hands with ethics and parts company with sociology history and economics.