PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Participatory Democracy, Sophist, Athenian Democracy
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In the 5th century, a huge base of people obeyed and followed a dictator or higher leader. Greek people lived in the middle east. Greeks in city states organized themselves different than those run by kings; citizenry of sparta ran like the army, everything was done together; very efficient because everything was done together. The city state of athens was a democracy: children and women couldn"t vote, certain qualifications were needed to be a participatory citizen. It was democratic because any citizen could propose a law or speak against it; a general participatory democracy; people would debate it and pass it or not. The usual way to get something in your favour was to have effective speaking skills, must be persuasive and use reason (essential to philosophy and key to athenian democracy) Equality was built into the democracy of athens because anyone could propose or speak against a legislature.
