Socrates’ Protreptic to the Scientific Study of Politics

• In Event: Ancient and Modern Challenges to the Socratic Understanding of Politics

Brief Overview

This paper carefully examines Plato’s Lovers, a woefully neglected foundational work of political philosophy, to attempt to understand for what reasons political science first came to be and why it was thought to be possible or necessary.

Author

• Derek Foret, The University of Texas at Austin