POLS 1000 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - Birth of Democracy in Athens
27 Mar 2012
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Lecture 4 birth of democracy in athens. Democracy emerge will take a particular form polis, size and nature is a result of choice. Renan: a nation is a plebiscite every day : polis is a way of life based on a quest for excellence, more than a regime, excellence based on equilibrium and balance between individual and community. Democratic life means decision that shape the community must come from all the governed (all of us) Some decisions we make have political consequences and implications. Pay for your own armour, defend athens" freedom abroad. Peasants: small farmers: some peasants live in freedom, others enslaved because of debts. Demand for merchants and peasants create conflict and strife within the city: disorder in aristocratic polis. Creation of two new types of politicians, have the power to resolve the conflict within city and avoid civil war. Elevated above the conflict/frame to elevated by the people in order to.
