The Essential Thucydides On Justice Power And Human Nature
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Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780872201699 |
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists. Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1647920337 |
Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his History. Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides’s History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest scholarship. The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN 978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-11-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781647920326 |
Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his History. Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides's History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest scholarship. The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN 978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).
Author | : Thucydides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9781647920524 |
Author | : Gregory Crane |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2023-12-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520918746 |
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.
Author | : Ilias Kouskouvelis |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498567401 |
This book uncovers Thucydides’ decision making schemata and his thinking on how people decide, particularly when in power or war. Based on these ideas, the author interprets the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war and the Sicilian expedition, and shows that they were a result of decision making and, thus, not inevitable.
Author | : Herodotus |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2003-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603846794 |
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise Herodotus’ historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps.
Author | : Stephen M. Griffin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0674074459 |
Extension of presidential leadership in foreign affairs to war powers has destabilized our constitutional order and deranged our foreign policy. Stephen M. Griffin shows unexpected connections between the imperial presidency and constitutional crises, and argues for accountability by restoring Congress to a meaningful role in decisions for war.
Author | : Julius Thomas Fraser |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780252024764 |
"Over the course of history, Fraser argues, human values have served primarily not as conservative influences that promote permanence, continuity, and balance - as commonly believed - but as revolutionary forces that, in the long run, promote change by generating and sustaining certain unresolvable conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Geoffrey Hawthorn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107039169 |
This book presents an introduction to and original reading of Thucydides' understanding of practical politics.