Political Science 2237E Lecture : October 30-Intro to Augustine.docx
8 Jul 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The greek paradigm was the first paradigm-that of the beautiful city. The greeks were pagans and the glue of their polities was philosophy, idealism, or nature. Cities were the paradigm because the athenians really saw their city as the extent of civilization. If you were not athenian, you were not good enough. If athens was the paradigm of the polity, rome was the paradigm of the empire. The metropolis was not just the mother city , it was the centre of civilization. From this centre, roman power radiated out to the world>>bigger was better. The new exemplar was expansion until you built walls to limit the bounds of civilization. It was projected power that was increasingly dependent on military power to carry the symbolic power of the empire to its periphery. The political unit is no longer rome but the world. Politics is now locally focused because people are so tired of being crushed by enormous economic interests.
