Solon the Thinker
In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon 's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon 's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life, and that…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7156-3728-9
- EAN: 9780715637289
- Produktnummer: 30717766
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.5 cm 303 g
- Gewicht: 303
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