Archive for February, 2002

The Idealist vs. the Realist: Plato and Machiavelli

Filed under General on February 25, 2002

Plato has been labeled as the first political scientist, due to his application of reason and inquiry to political systems in The Republic, his great work. A philosopher of ancient Greece who lived some 400 years before the birth of Christ, Plato founded his proposed system of government upon a carefully thought out ideal […]