ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author lays out a critical history of what he considers to be the positivist methodological dogmas that continue to influence political thought as well as their roots in the soil of liberal democratic ideology. The author considers and demonstrates how the foundations have come to afflict contemporary understandings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's political thought insofar as it significantly relates to his metaphysics. In short, scientific methodologies, as well as ideological imperatives, were intertwined within the new science of politics movement, marrying the positivist revolt against idealism to the political interests of liberalism in an Anglo-American context. The methodological regimentation of contemporary political science has its thickest roots in the soil of the 1920s' science of politics movement. The initiation of the early twentieth-century positivist project in political science would weigh heavily on the future development and scientific regimentation of the discipline.
