Hello aspirant,

Some have identified Plato (428/427-348/347bce), whose ideal of a stable republic still yields insights and metaphors, as the first political scientist, though most consider Aristotle (384-322bce), who introduced empirical observation into the study of politics, to be the disciplines, true founder.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy reveals that the field of political science is a social science that dates back 2,500 years to the works of Plato and Aristotle, who defined it as the study of the state and its interest in the greater good of its citizens.

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