Theory, Facts and Political Reality

The paper examines the relationship between political reality, political theory and political facts. Political facts appear only together with the emergence of the political theory. Increasing number of theories always means increasing number of facts. A source from which political facts are drawn is political reality. Reality is incomprehensible, infinite, inexhaustible that is it has most of the characteristics that medieval philosophers endowed God. The key moment in the relationship between theory and facts is that theories “cover” – that is link in a consistent system – only a very small number of facts. As a result, theories almost never compete with each other, analysis of most political processes requires involvement of several theories, and forming causal chains of facts is difficult or even impossible. Due to political theories origin, in particular, their close relationship with their creators’ personalities and their principal, essential normativity such theories can exist, to a certain extent, in parallel, independently of political reality.