POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Athenian Democracy, Enquire, Polemarchus
18 Jun 2013
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How to value democracy and how its tied to athens. 30,000 citizens; medics like slaves, women had no rights; were hidden. Assumed people knew to abide by laws (people"s court) Peoples court: randomly selected citizens, everyone was present, assembly democracy, everyone was involved, highly public life. Paid to be apart of people court. Citizens cannot be made slaves imperial power. Everyone had an opinion: caused chaos. Power is in the hand of the people. Democracy is associated with freedom: free state(community is free, autonomias (self law) living under ones own law. Model for other states to follow leads to imperialism. Claims to teaches virtues, politics: aristotle would say you cannot teach virtues, not hereditary, knowledge is hard to enquire. Talks about zeus: distribution of virtue justice is the question of politics and what is justice justice brings society together. Everyone must have the capacity to enquire knowledge and justice.
