The following article examines Foucault’s definition of biopolitics,especially the problem of its origin. Foucault’s thesis is that modern biopolitics has its most remote origin in the ancient Christian pastoral work; however, there are good reasons to believe that the origin may be found in Plato, given the biopolitical direction of his thought.
Frías Urrea, R. (2013). Foucault and the Greek origin of biopolitics. Revista De Filosofía, 69, Pág. 119–132. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/30122
