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Beschreibung:

443 S. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Schutzmschlag berieben und am Rücken nachgedunkelt, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Inhalt: PREFATORY: THE EDEN MYTH AND THE SCIENCE OF MAN -- HISTORY AS REGRESS: THE WORKS AND DAYS, THE STATESMAN, THE LAWS -- HISTORY AS PROGRESS: THE PROMETHEUS BOUND, THE ANTIGONE, DIODORUS I -- HISTORY AS A COMPROMISE: THE PROTAGORAS, REPUBLIC II, POLITICS I -- THE FRAGMENTS OF THE GREEK ANTHROPOLOGISTS -- THE POLITICAL THEORY OF DEMOCRITUS IN DEFENCE OF DEMOCRACY -- HUMAN OPINION, PRAGMATIC JUDGMENT, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS -- THE METHOD AND VALIDITY OF POLITICAL DECISION -- ANTIPHON -- THE EMASCULATION OF LIBERALISM IN ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS -- THE REJECTION OF LIBERALISM IN ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS -- GREEK LIBERALISM - THE FULL FLOWER. - In the history of political theory it has been commonly assumed that the Greek contribution can be identified in the main with those principles of citizenship and government contained in the writings of Plato and Aristotle, who stated once and for all the 'classic' view of man as a citizen : of the Greek city state. The author of this , highly original book challenges the monopoly over the Greek tradition exercised by the two masters: he offers the thesis, carefully documented, that theirs was not necessarily the only, nor indeed the typically, Greek position. His concluding chapters demonstrate what has sometimes been suspected but never proved, that those doctrines of equality and universal brotherhood fostered by Hellenistic philosophies, in the age which followed Alexander's conquest of the Greek city state, were in fact derived from an earlier context, which belonged to what may be called the age of Greek confidence. Their original inspiration, it appears, is to be sought in an experience of the democratic process which seemed successful. Such reasoned intellectual support for popular government, coming from the side of Greek antiquity, may seem as unexpected to the modern reader as it may also be welcome, in this crisis of our times which sees democracy so frequently disparaged or its principles rejected. (Verlagstext).