The Essential Thucydides On Justice Power And Human Nature

Author : Thucydides,Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1647920329

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The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature by Thucydides,Paul Woodruff Pdf

Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his History. Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides's History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest scholarship. The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN 978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).

Author : Thucydides,Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647920333

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The Essential Thucydides: On Justice, Power, and Human Nature by Thucydides,Paul Woodruff Pdf

Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his History. Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides’s History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest scholarship. The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN 978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0872201694

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On Justice, Power & Human Nature by Thucydides Pdf

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.

Author : Thucydides,Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1603845062

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On Justice, Power, and Human Nature by Thucydides,Paul Woodruff Pdf

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff’s selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1647920523

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The Essential Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603846790

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On the War for Greek Freedom by Herodotus Pdf

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise Herodotus’ historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps.

Author : Christian R. Thauer,Christian Wendt,Ernst Baltrusch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137527752

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Thucydides and Political Order by Christian R. Thauer,Christian Wendt,Ernst Baltrusch Pdf

This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and efficacy of the interdisciplinary approach to political order in the ancient world and proposes new paths for the future study.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416590873

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The Landmark Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

Chronicles two decades of war between Athens and Sparta.

Author : Thucydides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39076005386391

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Hobbes's Thucydides by Thucydides Pdf

Om den Peloponnesiske krig 431-404 f. Kr.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520918740

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Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity by Gregory Crane Pdf

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.

Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108479431

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Reason and Cause by Richard Ned Lebow Pdf

A cultural history of the concepts of reason and cause, showing that they are culturally and historically local.

Author : Donald Kagan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385423755

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On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan Pdf

A brilliant and vitally important history of why states go to war, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Peloponnesian War. War has been a fact of life for centuries. By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous World Wars of the twentieth century, renowned historian Donald Kagan reveals new and surprising insights into the nature of war and peace. Vivid, incisive, and accessible, Kagan's powerful narrative warns against complacency and urgently reminds us of the importance of preparedness in times of peace.

Author : S. N. Jaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192524744

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Thucydides on the Outbreak of War by S. N. Jaffe Pdf

The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which rendered the Peloponnesian War somehow necessary, inevitable, or compulsory. In this new political psychological study of Thucydides' first book, S.N. Jaffe shows how the History's account of the outbreak of the war ultimately points toward the opposing characters of the Athenian and Spartan regimes, disclosing a Thucydidean preoccupation with the interplay between nature and convention. Jaffe explores how the character of the contest between Athens and Sparta, or how the outbreak of a particular war, can reveal Thucydides' account of the recurring human causes of war and peace. The political thought of Thucydides proves bound up with his distinctive understanding of the interrelationship of particular events and more universal themes.

Author : Clifford Orwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691219400

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The Humanity of Thucydides by Clifford Orwin Pdf

Thucydides has long been celebrated for the unflinching realism of his presentation of political life. And yet, as some scholars have asserted, his work also displays a profound humanity. In the first thorough exploration of the relation between these two traits, Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydides' humanity is not a reflection of the author's temperament but an aspect of his thought, above all of his articulation of the central problem of political life, the tension between right and compulsion. This book provides the most complete treatment to date of Thucydides' handling of the problem of injustice, as well as the most extensive interpretations yet of the speeches in which it comes to light. Thucydides does not merely display the weakness of justice in the world, but joins his characters in exploring the implications of this weakness for our understanding of what justice is. Orwin pursues this question through Thucydides' work and relates it to the historian's other leading concerns, such as the contrast between the Athenian way and the Spartan way, the role of piety in political life, the interaction of foreign and domestic politics, and the role of statesmanship in a world dominated by frenzies of hope, fear, and indignation. Above all, Orwin demonstrates the richness, complexity, and daring of Thucydides' articulation of these issues.