POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Iliad
10 Oct 2018
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The main influences for legal and philosophical academic thought are from ancient greece and the judeo-christian bible. The questions of (cid:873)should i obey(cid:874) and (cid:873)must i obey(cid:874) The bible is not uniform as it was written by various people over an extensive period of time. The iliad greek gods as all powerful beings but morally flawed in ways similar to people. In the old testament and the days of early religion, all people accepted the existence of other gods. Moses @ pharaoh, (cid:873)my god is stronger than your gods(cid:874) and not (cid:873)my god is real and yours isn"t(cid:874) God gave laws to moses to implement, the leaders of early israel were known as. They did not make laws or rule they simply judged cases based on the laws from god. Other gods in the mediterranean are prayed to for each battle and these gods would send in heroes the jewish god did not do this.
