HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Equal Opportunity, Henry Kissinger, Delian League
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Polis to fortress: polis = association of human beings, persuasion, fortress= no better than armed military camp, 2 techniques, detailed chronology, heridatus attributed things to gods, t observes human aspects, doesn"t measure up to modern standards. Talked about equality under the law: hypocritical. Equal opportunity: poor people can hold office bc based on ability not income/ pre-existing status. The open society: no practice of secrecy or censorship, didn"t care about spying, wanted people to see the way they lived. Nbh2ydswzmjjs3a: k: if m right in revolting, then you shouldn"t be in power, d: will encourage revolt, and make them more intense, diodidus doesn"t use justice to back his claims, he uses self-interest. 43_hbczcfk: modern political scientists point to this saying that athenians were always realists, melians talk about justice. Starts up again bc of hubris: takes cecily, alcibiades: empire talk, naked expansionism; a rejection of pericles earlier moderation; sometime wildly irrational, nationalistic; populist.
