PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Pagan Pride, True Justice, Ancient Greek Philosophy
7 Jul 2014
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St. augustine christian context: crisis of empire sack of rome 410 and augustine"s defence of christianity. Augustine points to sacking of rome to prove that the historical tradition is limited and flawed, and that christianity is best. Watches the fall of rome in 410 by the barbarians. A lot of pagans blamed christianity, seemed like a nutty sect: rome universal city cosmopolis cicero, law, and stoicism rationality of republic . Empire overreached and it collapsed, but rome was a very informed region. It was a cosmopolis cosmos meaning universal, polis = city. Aristotle says a polis has to be small, have to know everyone face to face. Rome and cicero, took the idea of republic and modified it into an empire. Stoicism, idea following on from aristotle"s more contemplative writings about logos, mind, reason, etc. Anybody can in theory participate in intellectual discussion, etc. didn"t matter if you were a spartan or athenian you could be a citizen of rome.
