Democracies, leaderships, equalities. Two suggestions by Herodotus and Thucydides
This text investigates the problem of majority decision in democracies from three paradigmatic passages from Herodotus and Thucydides, and examines their implications for the forging of leadership, for the promotion of crises and, chiefly, for the identification of different modes of equality. From...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Archai (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/47983 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/archai/article/view/47983 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | democracy leadership equality Herodotus Thucydides democracia liderança igualdade Heródoto Tucídides |
| Sumario: | This text investigates the problem of majority decision in democracies from three paradigmatic passages from Herodotus and Thucydides, and examines their implications for the forging of leadership, for the promotion of crises and, chiefly, for the identification of different modes of equality. From the examination of Herodotus 6.109.5 and 8.79.3, and Thucydides 3.35-50, parallels are drawn which, starting from ancient problems, may shed some light on contemporary analogue problems. |
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