The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens
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The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens
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Author : Matthew Christ
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-08
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens written by Matthew Christ and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with History categories.
Athenians in the classical period (508–322 BC) were drawn to an image of themselves as a compassionate and generous people who rushed to the aid of others in distress, both at home and abroad. What relation does this image bear to actual Athenian behavior? This book argues that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens whom they did not know. Democratic ideology called on citizens to refrain from harming one another rather than to engage in mutual support, and emphasized the importance of the helping relationship between citizen and city rather than among individual citizens. If the obligation of Athenians to help fellow citizens was fairly tenuous, all the more so was their responsibility to intervene to assist the peoples of other states; a distinct pragmatism prevailed in the city's decisions concerning intervention abroad.
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens
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Author : Matthew Robert Christ
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-08
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens written by Matthew Robert Christ and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with History categories.
Examines the behavior of Athenians in the classical period, arguing that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens.
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens
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Author : Matthew Robert Christ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens written by Matthew Robert Christ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Altruism categories.
"This book argues that, contrary to how Athenians idealized themselves, they felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens and did not feel strongly obliged as a group to help peoples of other states"--
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens
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Author : Matthew Robert Christ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Limits Of Altruism In Democratic Athens written by Matthew Robert Christ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with HISTORY categories.
"This book argues that, contrary to how Athenians idealized themselves, they felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens and did not feel strongly obliged as a group to help peoples of other states"--
Ideology Of Democratic Athens
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Author : Matteo Barbato
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-28
Ideology Of Democratic Athens written by Matteo Barbato and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with History categories.
The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
Xenophon And The Athenian Democracy
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Author : Matthew R. Christ
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Xenophon And The Athenian Democracy written by Matthew R. Christ and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with History categories.
Examines how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values and skills needed to lead the Athenian democracy.
Law And Order In Ancient Athens
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Author : Adriaan Lanni
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-09
Law And Order In Ancient Athens written by Adriaan Lanni and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-09 with History categories.
This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.
The Oxford Handbook Of Demosthenes
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Author : Gunther Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Oxford Handbook Of Demosthenes written by Gunther Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. This Handbook explores the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to his social and historical context and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.
The Greeks And The Rational
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Author : Josiah Ober
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-11-29
The Greeks And The Rational written by Josiah Ober and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with History categories.
Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, The Greeks and the Rational traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece. In this book, Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated and systematic ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits—that not every decision can be reduced to mechanistic calculations of optimal outcomes. Ober finds contemporary echoes of this tradition in the application of game theory to political science, economics, and business management. The Greeks and the Rational offers a striking revisionist history with widespread implications for the study of ancient Greek civilization, the history of thought, and human rationality itself.
Demagogues Power And Friendship In Classical Athens
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Author : Robert Holschuh Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-09
Demagogues Power And Friendship In Classical Athens written by Robert Holschuh Simmons and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-09 with History categories.
What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building. Comedies of Aristophanes (particularly Knights), tragedies of Euripides (particularly Iphigenia in Aulis), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly Anabasis and Cyropaedia) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes' Knights between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out – as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself.