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Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary's perspective on Athenian society. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes. The book's lucid portrayals of the best-known Athenian festivals-honoring Athena, Demeter, and Dionysus-offer a balanced view of Athenian ritual and illustrate the range of such customs in fifth-century Athens.
Democracy --- Religion and politics --- History --- Religious aspects --- Athens (Greece) --- Greece --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Religion. --- alcibiades. --- ancient greece. --- athena. --- athenian life. --- athens. --- civic life. --- classical greece. --- demeter. --- democracy. --- democratic institutions. --- dionysus. --- festivals and games. --- greek gods. --- greek scholars. --- incantation. --- institutional religion. --- polytheism. --- private spheres. --- profaning of eleusinian mysteries. --- public spheres. --- religion and politics. --- religious cults. --- religious practices. --- retrospective. --- rites and rituals. --- ritual sacrifice. --- trial of socrates. --- world religion.
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This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are not present in this dialogue.
Socrates --- Political and social views. --- Analogy. --- Anytus. --- Apology (Plato). --- Argument from analogy. --- Argument from authority. --- Aristotle. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Attempt. --- Authoritarianism. --- Begging the question. --- Callicles. --- Categorical imperative. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Civil disobedience. --- Clarke's three laws. --- Classical Athens. --- Consideration. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- Criticism. --- Crito. --- Damascius. --- Deliberation. --- Democratic liberalism. --- Demosthenes. --- Doctrine of necessity. --- Doctrine. --- Dokimasia. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Egocentrism. --- Epinomis. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Euripides. --- Euthydemus (dialogue). --- Euthyphro (prophet). --- Euthyphro. --- Explanation. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Greek mythology. --- Hedonism. --- Hippias (tyrant). --- Hippias Minor. --- Hippias. --- In Defense of Anarchism. --- Isocrates. --- Jury. --- Kantianism. --- Liberalism. --- Meletus. --- Meno. --- Moral development. --- Morality. --- Necessity. --- Nicias. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Objection (law). --- Parmenides. --- Philo of Byblos. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical Studies. --- Philosophy of law. --- Philosophy. --- Piety. --- Plea. --- Plotinus. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Popular sovereignty. --- Prosecutor. --- Protagoras (dialogue). --- Protagoras. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Ratification. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Republic (Plato). --- Socrates. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic questioning. --- Solipsism. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophist. --- Spinozism. --- Statute. --- Suggestion. --- The Death of Socrates. --- The Open Society and Its Enemies. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thrasymachus. --- Trial of Socrates. --- Truism. --- Two Treatises of Government. --- Utilitarianism. --- Virtue. --- Working hypothesis.
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