01:506:101 Lecture 1: Ch1
13 Mar 2018
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Chapter 1: the rise of europe: ancient times: greece, rome, and christianity (pp. "the greeks proved to be as gifted a people as mankind has ever produced, achieving supreme heights in thought and letters. They absorbed the knowledge of the, to them, mysterious eastthey added immediately to everything they teamed. The greeks lived in small city-states, independent and frequently at war. Democracy alternated with aristocracy, oligarchy, despotism, and tyranny. From this rich fund of experience was born systematic political science as set forth in the unwritten speculations of socrates and in the republic of plato and the ~ politics of aristotle in the fourth century before christ. The greeks were the first to write history as a subject distinct from myth and legend thucydides, in his account of the wars between athens and sparta, presented history as a guide to enlightened citizenship and constructive statecraft. " They prized and defined "classical" virtues: order, balance, symmetry, clarity, and control.
