POLI 231 Lecture 5: September 17, 2018
10 Oct 2018
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Antigone felt extra-political duties to family and to religion these are more important than the human law. The ethos of responsibility creon"s dilemma. War vs sparta (aristocratic hierarchy replaces the athenian democracy) From 500 to 350 bc athens produces the biggest contributors to politics, philosophy, drama, and mathematics. Sophocles writes without state support like sophocles did. In democratic athens, the poorer ranges of property-owning citizens are more numerous than the richer ranges. If the rich were to be sued, the jury would be made up by a majority of poorer citizens. Therefore young, rich men wanted to defend themselves by paying people to teach them argumentation. Socrates took a different approach wanted to teach people to argue the truth and didn"t get paid. Many accuse socrates of poisoning the minds of his students. He believed that sparta was better than athens, during the polynesian war his former students became spartan tyrants. Socrates" tried for treason, found guilty, dies.
