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Provides a model for societal behaviour and morality in ancient Athens.
Author : Gabriel Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521850215
Provides a model for societal behaviour and morality in ancient Athens.
Author : Arthur W. H. Adkins
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Gabriel Herman
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783515098670
Was the Athenian democracy anarchic, given to domestic violence and hence unstable, as claimed by some scholars, or was it a stable, well-ordered, social system, provided with in-built mechanisms to overcome crisis? Various aspects of this question, central to the understanding of the Athenian democracy, are investigated in this volume by a team of distinguished experts. The often surprising answers they provide should be of interest to specialists as well as laymen. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Alexander Fuks.
Author : John R. Wallach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108422578
Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Author : W. den Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004327746
Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319963139
The original essays in this volume discuss ideas relating to democracy, political justice, equality and inequalities in the distribution of resources and public goods. These issues were as vigorously debated at the height of ancient Greek democracy as they are in many democratic societies today. Contributing authors address these issues and debates about them from both philosophical and historical perspectives. Readers will discover research on the role of Athenian democracy in moderating economic inequality and reducing poverty, on ancient debates about how to respond to inborn and social inequalities, and on Plato’s and Aristotle’s critiques of Greek participatory democracies. Early chapters examine Plato’s views on equality, justice, and the distribution of political and non-political goods, including his defense of the abolition of private property for the ruling classes and of the equality of women in his ideal constitution and polis. Other papers discuss views of Socrates or Aristotle that are particularly relevant to contemporary political and economic disputes about punishment, freedom, slavery, the status of women, and public education, to name a few. This thorough consideration of the ancient Greeks' work on democracy, justice, and equality will appeal to scholars and researchers of the history of philosophy, Greek history, classics, as well as those with an interest in political philosophy.
Author : K. J. Dover
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872202450
In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.
Author : Matthew Robert Christ
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1107029775
Examines the behavior of Athenians in the classical period, arguing that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens.
Author : Joseph M. Bryant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791430415
An exercise in cultural sociology, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece seeks to explicate the dynamic currents of classical Hellenic ethics and social philosophy by situating those idea-complexes in their socio-historical and intellectual contexts. Central to this enterprise is a comprehensive historical-sociological analysis of the Polis form of social organization, which charts the evolution of its basic institutions, roles, statuses, and class relations. From the Dark Age period of "genesis" on to the Hellenistic era of "eclipse" by the emergent forces of imperial patrimonialism, Polis society promoted and sustained corresponding normative codes which mobilized and channeled the requisite emotive commitments and cognitive judgments for functional proficiency under existing conditions of life. The aristocratic warrior-ethos canonized in the Homeric epics; the civic ideology of equality and justice espoused by reformist lawgivers and poets; the democratization of status honor and martial virtue that attended the shift to hoplite warfare; the philosophical exaltation of the Polis-citizen bond as found in the architectonic visions of Plato and Aristotle; and the subsequent retreat from civic virtues and the interiorization of value articulated by the Skeptics, Epicureans, and Stoics, new age philosophies in a world remade by Alexander's conquests--these are the key phases in the evolving currents of Hellenic moral discourse, as structurally framed by transformations within the institutional matrix of Polis society.
Author : W. Den Boer
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004059764