<P> The antecedents of Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers , and Aristotle ( `` The Father of Political Science '' ) ( 384 -- 322 BC ) . These authors , in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato , and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle , analyzed political systems philosophically , going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod , historians like Herodotus and Thucydides , and dramatists such as Sophocles , Aristophanes , and Euripides . </P>
<P> The antecedents of Western politics can be traced back to the Socratic political philosophers , and Aristotle ( `` The Father of Political Science '' ) ( 384 -- 322 BC ) . These authors , in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato , and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle , analyzed political systems philosophically , going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod , historians like Herodotus and Thucydides , and dramatists such as Sophocles , Aristophanes , and Euripides . </P>
who is known as the father of political science
who is known as the father of political science
Aristotle
Aristotle