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The Athenian Option
Author | : Anthony Barnett,Peter Carty |
Publsiher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2017-01-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781845406370 |
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Before New Labour came to power and when even the prospect of reform of Britain's House of Lords was regarded with scepticism, Anthony Barnett and Peter Carty developed the idea of selecting part of a new upper house by lot: creating a jury or juries, that are representative of the population as a whole while being selected at random, to assess legislation. This new edition of the original proposal includes an account of the reception of the idea, their evidence before the Commission on the Lords established by Tony Blair, and a response to the great advances in citizen-based deliberation that have taken place since the mid-1990s. It concludes with a new appeal to adopt their approach as efforts to reform the Lords continue.
The Athenian Option
Author | : Anthony Barnett,Peter Carty,Demos (Organisation). |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:59567040 |
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The Athenian Funeral Oration
Author | : David M. Pritchard |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2024-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009413060 |
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In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.
Tragedy Philosophy and Political Education in Plato s Laws
Author | : Ryan Krieger Balot,Professor of Political Science and Classics Ryan K Balot |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780197647226 |
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Previous scholars and writers have either celebrated the idealism in Plato's Laws or denounced its totalitarianism. Ryan K. Balot, by contrast, refuses to interpret the dialogue as a political blueprint, whether admirable or misguided. Instead, he shows that it constitutes Plato's greatest philosophical investigation of political life. In this transformative re-appraisal, Balot reveals that Plato's goal was to cultivate a tragic attitude toward our political passions, commitments, and aspirations.
Greek Law in Its Political Setting
Author | : Lin Foxhall,A. D. E. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198140851 |
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This volume explores the ways in which law integrated with other aspects of life in ancient Greece. The papers collected here reveal a number of different pathways between law and political, social, and economic life in Greek societies. Emanating from several scholarly traditions, they offer a range of contrasting but complementary insights rarely collected together. What emerges clearly is that law in Greece only takes on its full meaning in a broadly political context. Dynamic tensions govern the relationships between this semi-autonomous legal arena and other spheres of life. An ideology of equality before the law was juxtaposed with a practical reality of individuals' unequal abilities to cope with it. It is hard to draw firm lines between the settlement of cases in court and the spill-over of legal actions into the agora, the streets, the fields, and the houses. Hence it is hardly surprising if justice can all too easily give way to justification.
Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy
Author | : Vilius Bartninkas |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781009322591 |
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Shows how Plato's distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods sheds new light on his relation to Greek religion.
The Greeks and the Rational
Author | : Josiah Ober |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520380165 |
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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.
The Athenian Empire Restored
Author | : Harold B. Mattingly |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472106562 |
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Removes the foundations of classical Greek history, and begins creating new ones