Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(PHIL2280) -  MICHAIL PAROUSIS

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

Democracy is the most important part of the cultural heritage of Greek Classical Antiquity. But how did it emerge in the course of the political, social and economic actions that took place from the 8th to the 4th century b.C. ? The Self-Governance of City-States builds the frame for the development of several different political forms as these are witnessed through the ancient and modern historians.  Philosophers face these developments through their own critical point of view and examine the secular political life by establishing evaluative criteria for the assessment of the worthiness of any given political form. From the Archaic Cosmology through the Classics down to the Stoics one can follow the philosophical discourse of practical political philosophy as it has been articulated in all fields of Ancient Greek Culture.

 

In the first part we will examine the general cultural discursive context by referring to sources from historiography, cosmological philosophy from the Pythagoreans to the Ionians and the philosophers of the Archaic Times, tragedy and comedy, and the rhetoric tradition.

 

In the second part, we will focus on the Platonic and the Aristotelian works  on political philosophy, like Politeia, Politikos, Nomoi, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Constitution of the Athenians which constitute the main corpus of sources on the subject.

Finally, in the last part we will examine the post-classical political philosophy from the Epicureans to the Stoics, in a parallel historical context which is characterized by the decline and the end of democracy under the Roman occupation of the hellenic territory. .

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Τρίτη 24 Φεβρουαρίου 2026