The Origins of Political and Moral Philosophy in Ancient Greek Tragedy and Beyond

Exploring the origins of political and moral philosophy in Greek antiquity, this open access book suggests a new point of departure and offers a different history of political thought. Specifically, it traces the evolution of the theory of the ‘internal critique’, which is the idea of assessing an argument from within. Current scholarship argues that such techniques of argumentation are a Platonic invention, but Johan Tralau claims that these forms of argumentation have a fascinating prehisto…