Democracy Socrates’s point is that voting in an election is a skill, not a random intuition. And like any skill, it needs to be taught systematically to people. Letting the citizenry vote without an education is as irresponsible as putting them in charge of a trireme sailing to Samos in ...
But, there are those of us who still now the real truth! The reasons WHY the forefathers very carefully crafted the Constitutional Republic they did! And in every single case of their intent, its quite obvious they avoided the principles of “Democracy”!
Why did Augustus succeed where Julius Caesar had not? Why was Giuseppe Mazzini exiled? Why was ostracism important to Athenian democracy? Why did Suetonius write The Twelve Caesars? Why did so many people oppose Tiberius Gracchus? Why did serfs rarely leave the manor?
They considered these works to be offensive, inappropriate, unnecessary and needlessly provocative. And yet, in the end, it did help the society. Norway is now one of the most equal societies in the world. And those works are still relevant even today. This new trend of censuring bad, ugl...
Why did the Sumerians invent writing? Why did the Byzantine Empire revive Greek studies and Roman law? Why was Athenian democracy so groundbreaking? Why did direct democracy work in ancient Athens? Why did ancient Egyptians wear wigs? Why are Sumerians important to studying the past? Why is ...
This is obviously what is encapsulated in my question: Why did Emma Bovary have to be killed? In order to bring up the issue, we must start from a closer investigation of what is supposed to be Emma’s fundamental error: the error of mistaking literature for life. Madame Bovary is suppos...
That is why studying philosophy can save you even from the crisis of middle age, because you will know why you lived, and everything you did before was not meaningless. Alan Ahdoot Legal Specialist,Adamson Ahdoot LLP Philosophy teaches you to read critically ...
MAKE IT AS THE END TIMES APPROACH. 0 Ultan McG Reply to Newrob 3 years ago I think I might have asked the vaxx question, Rob. And boy did I get an answer. Much food for thought, as always. As for the article above, I personally would accept that future scenario as nothing ...
In this, he was inspired by Athens’s great rival: Sparta. This was a city-sized machine for turning out great soldiers. Everything the Spartans did – how they raised their children, how their economy was organised, whom they admired, how they had sex, what they ate – was tailored to...
Plato distrusted commerce, detested democracy, and also came to believe that teaching philosophy to just anyone was dangerous. A tradition of ethical argument arose that questioned whether engaging in trade was even moral, since merchants did not produce their commodities and so did not contribute ...