History 2188A/B Lecture 1: midterm notes
14 Jan 2019
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Influential christian bishop: shaped the medival and modern christian thought, most influential platonic tradition with christian ideas, wrote city of god which was a response to an idea that christianity brought the fall of. In the city of god, st. augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by alexander the. Great, who asked him how dare he molest the sea . How dare you molest the whole world the pirate replied. Because i do it with a little ship only, i am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor . Peritates/ peirein: taken from the greek word peirate (meaning to attack, the greeks and romans knew the perils of piracy, the metaphor of intellectual piracy took hold in early modern english. Piracy"s necessary conditions: maritime commerce, benefit > risk, complicit buyer, supporting apparatus, labour supply, low/no state level presence.
