POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scientific Method, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Humanism
2 Nov 2016
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As of 450 bce, citizen requirements in athens will be changed and established. Privilege of citizenship was jealously guarded - will exclude at least 3/4 categories of people in athens - slaves, women, and metics/foreign residents. As well as children, but children remain excluded from political life today. May be causation - excluding women allowed for such a polis to exist. Correlation between existence of slavery and presence of democracy. Athenian democratic experience comes to an end with establishment of macedonia as an imperial power - king philip the 2nd of macedonia puts end to athenian independence in 338. Alexander the great is king philip the 2nd"s son - will incorporate athens into new empire. Athens no longer a polis - simply a city. Hellenism - culture of athens will remain - but its distinctive politics and type of equality and freedom will disappear.
