Political Science · Political Theory
Ethics is concerned with man as a man and as such, it is prior to:
ASociety
BScience
CPolitical Science ✓ Correct
DHistory
Correct answer: (C) Political Science — Ethics deals with man as a moral being even before he is a citizen, so it is prior to political science.
Explanation
★Ethics deals with man as a moral being even before he is a citizen, so it is prior to political science.
★The moral worth of a person exists independently of any political organisation.
★Political science studies man only after he has entered organised political life as a member of the state.
★Since morality underlies the very purpose of the state, ethical ends come before political arrangements.
★This is why classical thinkers placed the good life, an ethical idea, as the goal that politics must serve.
★Society, science and history are not the point of comparison the statement is making about ethics.
★Aristotle captured this by treating politics as the master science aimed at the highest human good.
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