Brian Marrin

Few today would deny the connection between our thinking about the political world and the natural. Our attitudes to the one influence our approach to the other and vice versa. I want to attempt to conceptualize this relation on the level of philosophical analysis through a study of these themes in Plato, whose dialogues suggest an understanding of this mutual interaction without artificially separating or subsuming either term under the other. Ultimately I wish to explore, however provisionally, how this relation bears on our understanding of the human being as standing at the intersection of the natural and the political.