Three Traditions Of Greek Political Thought

Author : George T. Menake
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 076182961X

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Three Traditions of Greek Political Thought by George T. Menake Pdf

Three Traditions of Greek Political Thought: Plato in Dialogue is an analysis of the emergence of Western philosophical and political thought in archaic and classical Greece. With particular focus on Plato, this book is an in-depth study of the contentious dialogue in classical political philosophy. In the late archaic and classical periods, two major traditions of philosophical and political thought developed. One tradition was associated with the Presocratic mechanistic materialistic philosophers and the Sophists. The second tradition, beginning with Pythagoras, gained full expression in the collected dialogues of Plato. Both of these philosophic traditions challenged the long established Greek mythico/religious tradition associated with Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and others. This study examines the dynamic dialogue involving these three traditions, which present competing and conflicting world views. It concludes that Plato's dialogues, taken together, quintessentially embody the mainstream dialogue or trialogue, as it could be called, in Greek political thought. This book also makes the case that the three major traditions of Greek political thought set the stage for the future dialogue of Western political philosophy even to this day.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139488495

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Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by Paul Cartledge Pdf

Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three major issues: first, the relationship of political thought and practice; second, the relevance of class and status to explaining political behaviour and thinking; third, democracy - its invention, development and expansion, and extinction, prior to its recent resuscitation and even apotheosis. In addition, monarchy in various forms and at different periods and the peculiar political structures of Sparta are treated in detail over a chronological range extending from Homer to Plutarch. The book provides an introduction to the topic for all students and non-specialists who appreciate the continued relevance of ancient Greece to political theory and practice today.

Author : Christopher Rowe,Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521481368

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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought by Christopher Rowe,Malcolm Schofield Pdf

A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.

Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118556689

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A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought by Ryan K. Balot Pdf

A COMPANION TO GREEK AND ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Justice, virtue, and citizenship were at the center of political life in ancient Greece and Rome and were frequently discussed by classical poets, historians, and philosophers. This Companion illuminates Greek and Roman political thought in all its range, diversity, and depth. Thirty-four essays from leading scholars in history, classics, philosophy, and political science provide stimulating discussions of classical political thought, ranging from the Archaic Greek epics to the final days of the Roman Empire and beyond. These essays strike a judicious yet thought-provoking balance between theoretical and historical perspectives. A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought is an authoritative guide to the ancient Greek and Roman political questions that continue to shape and challenge the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 16??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:651235179

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Corollaria theologica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ryan K. Balot
Publisher : LibreDigital
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1405152214

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Greek Political Thought by Ryan K. Balot Pdf

This wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought shows what ancient political texts might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century. A provocative and wide-ranging history of ancient Greek political thought Demonstrates what ancient Greek works of political philosophy might mean to citizens of the twenty-first century Examines an array of poetic, historical, and philosophical texts in an effort to locate Greek political thought in its cultural context Pays careful attention to the distinctively ancient connections between politics and ethics Structured around key themes such as the origins of political thought, political self-definition, revolutions in political thought, democracy and imperialism

Author : Johann P. Arnason,Kurt A. Raaflaub,Peter Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118561676

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The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy by Johann P. Arnason,Kurt A. Raaflaub,Peter Wagner Pdf

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science

Author : Stuart Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190636326

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A Defense of Rule by Stuart Gray Pdf

At its core, politics is all about relations of rule. Accordingly one of the central preoccupations of political theory is what it means for human beings to rule over one another or share in a process of ruling. While political theorists tend to regard rule as a necessary evil, this book aims to explain how rule need not be understood as anathema to political life. Rather, by looking at some of the earliest traditions of political thought we can rethink rule in ways that evoke stewardship rather than domination. Stuart Gray argues that hierarchical ideas about rule coevolved with political divisions between the human and non-human in western theory. The earliest discernible Greek thought advanced an instrumental relationship between humans and their environment, a position that has persisted into our current age. While this seems a defensible position, Gray points out that such instrumental understandings of the nonhuman world have gotten us into serious trouble, including problems of deforestation, global warming, rising sea levels, species loss, and peak oil. To rethink the concept of rule, A Defense of Rule turns to early Indian political thought that suggests that rule is a relationship predicated on stewardship. The book compares these two traditions of thought in order to suggest that we have a normative duty to the environment, and thus to act in a way that takes the interests of non-human nature into account. Basing his argument on his own original translations of primary sources in ancient Greek and Sanskrit, Gray shows when and how early concepts of rule evolved to justify divisions between the human and nonhuman. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of our duties toward the nonhuman natural world.

Author : James F. McGlew
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0801483875

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Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece by James F. McGlew Pdf

Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. McGlew (classics, Allegheny College) examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691218182

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The Tragedy of Political Theory by J. Peter Euben Pdf

In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community. Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.

Author : Thomas Alan Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Political science
ISBN : OCLC:1176507994

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A History of Greek Political Thought by Thomas Alan Sinclair Pdf

Author : Stephen Salkever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139828024

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought by Stephen Salkever Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading scholars of classics, political science, and philosophy, the Companion brings these texts to life by analysing what they have to tell us about the problems of political life. Focusing on texts by Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, among others, they examine perennial issues, including rights and virtues, democracy and the rule of law, community formation and maintenance, and the ways in which theorizing of several genres can and cannot assist political practice.

Author : Antony Black
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198790686

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A World History of Ancient Political Thought by Antony Black Pdf

This text examines the political thought of China, Greece, Israel, Rome, India, Iran, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and also early Christianity. Each of these had its own priorities, based on a religious and philosophical perspective. This led to different ideas about who should govern, how to govern, and what government was for.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511729030

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Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by Paul Cartledge Pdf

This book investigates the interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from prehistoric times to the Roman Empire.

Author : Giannēs D. Stephanidēs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0754660591

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Stirring the Greek Nation by Giannēs D. Stephanidēs Pdf

"Drawing on a huge variety of sources including the Greek press, records of the Greek Parliament, the US and British National Archives, as well the archives of numerous individuals, this book provides a fascinating account of Greek political culture and national self image at a crucial time in the country's political development."--BOOK JACKET.