POL 2107 Study Guide - Glaucon, Vise, Selective Breeding
9 Jul 2014
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The origins of political thought in ancient greece. What is a theory: it is a set of interconnected statements which seek to describe the relationship between two or more distinct entities or phenomena, definitions, characteristics, abstract, prosaic, open-ended, elements, functions. Allowed to add on personal interpretation towards ideas presented by other people: culturally and historically influenced. Systematic argument about the ends of human life, and about how a given society or community should be ordered so that those ends can be best attained. Concepts generally refer to something that is abstract or not physically present. 490bce - battle of marathon, first greco-persian war ends. 479bce - victories over the persians at thermopylae. 338bce - conquest of greek world by philip of macedon. City-states had to come together in an alliance to hold their own against the persians. Battle between athens and its allies against sparta. On going tension between the two city states.
