Politics

A generally considered "dirty" word, politics is as vague a term as it can get. Adams wet as far as stating it as "a systematic organisation of hatred". But it's much much more than that.
Politics is a science of how the world operates. It adds on to the theory of existentialism and gives purpose to societies and how they function. It is a study of how people are organised and how  people determine the general rules of communal existence. The extent that different societies participate in political life too is an interesting concept where certain societies may have "minimal" states while others are perfectly content with totalitarian rule.It is a necessary and inescapable science. By studying societies and power structures can we understand what is happening in today's world and be aware of our current political scenarios to be educated and knowledgeable voters and make sensible decisions for our state.

Politics is ultimately, considered to be power.; the ability to have the means to meet thhe desired ends of particular parties. At the heart of the subject lies the power balance between the dominators and the dominated. In that aspect, it is a subject of how interested citizens are in having a say in who rules, how the rulers rule, and how authority in operates in societies.Recent media explosions have highlighted the atrocities of those in power and have given a voice to the common man o speak up and ask for their liberties, hence altering the power balance in the modern world. This has given rise to the phenomenon of anti-politics. It is also a study of which "class" rules over the other and whose interests the rulers work for as that is the defining point for differentiating societies. Ultimately gender roles such as feminist theories and patriarchal states all come under the banner of politics; which gender has power or claims to want it.

The most common thought is of politics as a matter of public affairs and that politics interfere with all matters of daily life. Aristotle claimed that 'man is by nature a political animal'. The subject may have drawn a clear line between the civil society and the state but it is ultimately all interrelated to the point that the civil society determines who the rulers are and the rulers may be held accountable and through revolutions and revolts can the civil society alter power dynamics in the vast international anarchic. It hence, is a subject that understands how the citizens operate in a territorial boundary and why they choose to abide by the laws prevalent there or not. What social contracts exist with those in authority and how balanced is the trade-off between liberties and security in any society.

Eventually, politics may be a science but it is still a hypothetical one where any theory can exist regarding the state of affairs. It is a study of power throughout history, in the presnt and of the future. Throughout all these times, every philosopher shall have a different perception of situations and events and that is the main reason such clashes exist between rival philosophers. Each person is at liberty to hold their perspective on politics and neither can "prove" the other wrong and in that lies the beauty of politics.