 <translate> As a social science, contemporary political science started to take shape in the latter half of the 19th century. At that time it began to separate itself from political philosophy, which traces its roots back to the works of Chanakya, Aristotle, and Plato which were written nearly 2,500 years ago. The term "political science" was not always distinguished from political philosophy, and the modern discipline has a clear set of antecedents including also moral philosophy, political economy, political theology, history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal state.

When did political science become an academic discipline? Let's have some stream of consciousness first. <yor> Gẹ́gẹ́ bí ẹ̀ka sáyẹ́ǹsì nípa àwùjọ, ẹ̀ka sáyẹ́ǹsì nípa ìṣèlú òde òní bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí ní ìrísí ní apá ìparí ọ̀rúndún kọkàndínlógún. Àkókò yẹn ni ó bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí ya ara rẹ̀ sọ́tọ̀ kúrò nínú ìmọ̀ ọgbọ́n orí òṣèlú, èyí tí ó ti ìpilẹ̀ṣẹ̀ rẹ̀ padà sí àwọn iṣẹ́ Chanakya, Aristotle, àti Plato tí wọ́n kọ ní nǹkan bí ọdún 2,500 sẹ́yìn. Ọ̀rọ̀ náà "ìmọ̀-ìṣèlú" kò fìgbà gbogbo yàtọ̀ sí ìmọ̀-ìṣèlú, àti ìmọ̀-ìṣèlú òde-òní ní àwọn ohun tí ó ti wà tẹ́lẹ̀ títí kan ìmọ̀-ìṣèlú, ìmọ̀-ìṣèlú, ìmọ̀-ìṣèlú nípa ẹ̀sìn, ìtàn, àti àwọn ẹ̀ka mìíràn tí ó ní í ṣe pẹ̀lú àwọn ìlànà tí ó yẹ kí ó wà àti pẹ̀lú fífi àwọn ànímọ́ àti àwọn iṣẹ́ ti ìjọba tí ó dára hàn.  Ìgbà wo ni ìmọ̀ ìṣèlú di ẹ̀ka ẹ̀kọ́ kan? Ẹ jẹ́ ká kọ́kọ́ wo bí nǹkan ṣe rí lára wa. 