POLISCI 359 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Body Politic
9 Feb 2016
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The greek discovery of politics by christian meier. To greeks, opposite of political was private , personal , self- interested : political meant the same as common (koinos, xynos) and referred to what concerned everybody. To broaden an oligarchy was to make it more political . Thucydides used the term political to designate proper form of a constitution founded on equality. Political rule was government of and by the free and equal, said. Greeks distinguished between constitutionally restricted sphere of political order and the unrestricted sphere that did not conform with polis, in which things were not ordered politically and tyranny prevailed or might prevail.
