Cartesian and Socratic Turns: Ancient and Modern Attempts to Secure the Foundations of Political Philosophy

• In Event: Political Epistemology in Locke, Descartes, and Plato

Brief Overview

This paper investigates the divide between ancient and modern political philosophy by examining how Socrates’ and Descartes’ divergent philosophic approaches arose in response to the same problem with securing the foundations of philosophic inquiry.

Author

• Benjamin Schwabe, The University of Texas at Austin