Political Science · Political Theory
Who among the following said, 'We cannot shed our values in the way we remove our coats'?
ALeo Strauss
BAlfred Cobban
CJean Blondel
DDavid Easton ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) David Easton — David Easton made this remark about the inescapability of values, so the answer is David Easton.
Explanation
★David Easton made this remark about the inescapability of values, so the answer is David Easton.
★The line captures the post-behavioural insight that a social scientist cannot become wholly value-free.
★Values cling to the inquirer like a second skin and shape the very questions chosen for study.
★Easton used this to correct the early behavioural dream of a purely value-neutral science of politics.
★He therefore urged that political scientists make their values explicit rather than pretend to have none.
★Leo Strauss criticised value-free social science from a classical standpoint, but this phrasing is Easton's.
★Cobban and Blondel wrote on the decline of theory and on comparative politics, not this particular saying.
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