POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Collective Behavior, Philosophical Language, Cud
6 Oct 2012
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Democracy ancient & modern, polis as a way of life and the birth of democracy: athens. In the fifth and fourth century, athens will see the rise of an intense and rich political community that will take the form of democracy. Athens as a city-state was at its origins aristocratic and its slowly transformed itself into a democracy. Through successive reforms, the athenian state will go from aristocratic to democratic. City-state polis : not a particularly happy translation of the term, certain scholars consider it to be a clumsy and inaccurate or bad translation. Professor kitto: athens was not like a city and it didn"t have a state. More than a city, did not have state apparateus. State was separate from the body of citizens. Greek civilization made philosophy, archecture, etc etc. The greeks were able to interact with other people non-greeks.
