Equality (Rivalry, Enmity) In Ancient Athens

Being equal made everyone renounce to a part of their most fundamental liberties and also to the beauty of arts. For example, the ballerinas shown on television make a poor

In every culture, there are the strong and there are the weak, the oppressor and the oppressed. Sometimes they are of the same race and sometimes not, but they all rely on a difference in power. Socrates, Frederick Douglass, and WEB Du Bois each experience this power differential through the course of their lives. Socrates experiences this through his experience with the jury of Athens and his trial; Douglass through his life as a slave and his eventual escape. Du Bois experiences it through being a black man in the time of Reconstruction and being well of in comparison to other African-Americans at the time. Each man’s unique perspective on equality can illuminate why authority is so instrumental in the development of equality.

The true definition of equality has been misunderstood in these societies and formed a dystopia when the people were trying to create a utopia. These 2 stories prove and show that when the meaning of equality is wrongly understood, it can have a negative impact on society and the people them.

Equality is a considerably critical man in the story, here are some examples. Equality states “ I owe nothing to my brothers nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet” (Rand 97). Throughout the story Equality sees many problems he faces with much thought, he finds the problem and attempts to make it better. Later in the story Equality runs off to the “Uncharted forest” and has to find ways to survive and says “why the best in me had been my sins and transgressions and why I had never felt any guilt in my sins” (Rand 98). As this quote was one of the first things in the last chapter Equality

Investigating Athens' Treatment of Her Allies During the period of 478-431, Athens’ treatment of her allies changed dramatically as she rose to become the leader of an empire. The establishment of the Delian League marked the beginning of a significant series of events, which lead to Athens’ rise to extreme power. From the evidence of Thucydides and the inscriptions, it is possible to track the progress of these events and the rapidly changing treatment that Athens enforced upon her allies.

The Athenian society was known as the most powerful society and well-developed city in the ancient Greek world. The Athenian Society was also known for their brilliant innovations in a lot of fields of life that are still being used in today’s life. Those fields of life include literature, poetry, drama, theatre, schools, buildings, and government. The fact that Athenian society being the strongest and brilliant society in the Ancient Greek time makes it become the most interesting society to study about. This society has a lot to offer in terms of its history and culture. To really see what the Athenian Society look like, we have to look at some important factors. Those

Athenian democracy ensures that a citizen in a society acts according to what society deems appropriate rather than by an individual's assumptions of what is acceptable. Athens as a whole stresses the importance of an active citizen whose life is intertwined with the government. In essence, an Athenian citizen can participate in the decision making of the state and will be enthusiastic in carrying out policies that pass in the assembly. Pericles, an Athenian statesman, makes it clear when he says that "each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well" (p.147 Thucydides). Socrates, a Greek philosopher, is a firm believer in examining one's actions in life and ensuring that a morally righteous

“They weren’t only equal before god and the law. They were equal in every which way.” if everyone was equal, the world would be boring. There would be no differences between anyone which would make everything boring. Being the same could also cause problems. This is because if someone needed something and the other person couldn’t do it, they could get in trouble.

Democracy in classical Athens provided Athenian citizens with absolute political and social freedom. This freedom, however, came with the price of civic duties. Due to the human nature of self-interested citizens, the public neglected to fulfill many of these civic obligations. If a civic duty compromised a citizen’s own success, then it could be assumed that the citizen would most likely attempt to evade a duty through the use of either persuasion or bribery. Christ’s The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens attempts to uncover the truth about citizenship in the Athenian democracy.

One event that caused Social tension in Athens during the fifth-century B.C.E, was known as the second Peloponnesian war (461 B.C.E.). Ancient sources from this period including, Epitaphios Logos and Lysistrata, when coupled with additional evidence, reveal social tensions Athenians confronted during this time.

In roughly 460 BCE, Epilates and Pericles launched an attack and changed their approaches of conservatism at home and positive relations with Sparta abroad. For around fifteen years (461-445 BCE), Athens, in cooperation with Argos, went to war with Sparta for control of the Greek territory; this was the First Peloponnesian War. At first Athens was triumphant, however, she was soon compelled to make peace with Persia (449 BCE) and afterwards with Sparta. An enduring consequence of the war was that Athens practiced stricter control over her partners: the Delian League turned into the Athenian Empire. Ruled by Pericles, Athens sought to keep traditions and maintain peace with Sparta. During this time, Athenians created the freest government the

Why do you think the competitive nature of the Greeks was so important for their success as a people and culture?

Humanities history is filled with notorious acts. We are always discriminating labeling and finding new ways and reasons to kill each other even though we all are the same. People with evil thoughts can corrupt people to think a certain way about another group. After they recognize there difference they start labeling them. Like how Hitler made all the Jews wear the David star so when ever they walk out in their society they are ridiculed ard hard core judged. This strategy is used to humanize this specific ethnic group making others have the mentality that they are everything but human and the ethnic group believe that they are deserve this treatment. After the people would be isolated from the world like how the jews were put in concentration camps and how the Nazis or non Jews were isolated to what is happening in their backyard. They had no clue. This is how genocides develop and they can happen right under our nose without us noticing.

Trade-off in Ancient Athens is not common, since the organization of political institutions of the Athenians shows that they want to avoid a powerful bureaucracy. Although, rulers sometimes do a trade-off between relative bargaining power and transaction cost for tax farming. While, in France, an example of trade-off could be the adoption of an expansionary monetary policy and cut French interest for the benefit of its citizens and the government. In Saudi Arabia and China, the trade-off perspective is not explained; since, in both countries the government controls and limit its citizen’s

Aristotle forwards the view that justice is equality. He takes the Platonic view of justice in which justice is rendering a man his due, and further elaborates on it by saying that equality entails not the indiscriminate treatment of everyone as an equal, but of treating what is similar similarly and what is dissimilar dissimilarly. This is clear in how he says “justice in the abstract is proportion,” and specifically that, in respect to the errors of democracy and oligarchy that “both kinds of equality should be employed;