John David Lewis

Solon the Thinker

Political Thought in Archaic Athens

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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 br… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4725-2113-2
EAN: 9781472521132
Produktnummer: 17036711
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'761 KB

Über den Autor

John David Lewis is Visiting Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, Bowling Green State University, USA. He is author of Nothing Less than Victory: The Will to Fight and the Lessons of History (2010), and Early Greek Lawgivers (also published by Bloomsbury, 2007).