Greco-Roman Vs Judeo-Christian

Over the past centuries, and even as close as the past decades laws, politics and human rights have been developed, changed and ignored. An abundant of people, civilizations and leaders have helped shape the world’s current political views, policies and _______. Throughout the world these Ideas have been shared and connected, and can be found around the globe and all through time. Ancient Roman politics greatly influenced modern laws, policies and rights. Within the civilization of Rome around the time of 451 BCE the Roman officials created the first written codified laws that the peninsula had ever seen.

On the contrary, during the early days of the Romans history, they believed in Greeks philosophy as well. WGBH (2008) has noted, “that some Roman citizens were open-minded to deities from the ancient Greece”. Nevertheless, after observing the preaching of a new kind of faith called Christianity, voiced by Paul of Tarsus, a Jew from Anatolia, about Jesus of Nazareth, the Romans welcomed this new faith. According to (Bentley et al, 2008), Paul’s teaching was based on...”a sense of spiritual freedom...and spiritual equality of the sexes and that Christianity bestows an assurance of victory to those who

A longstanding debate in human history is what to do with power and what is the best way to rule. Who should have power, how should one rule, and what its purpose should government serve have always been questions at the fore in civilization, and more than once have sparked controversy and conflict. The essential elements of rule have placed the human need for order and structure against the human desire for freedom, and compromising between the two has never been easy. It is a question that is still considered and argued to this day. However, the argument has not rested solely with military powers or politicians, but philosophers as well. Two prominent voices in this debate are Plato and Machiavelli, both

There are many differences between Christianity and Roman religion. There are also similarities between the two of how they both worshipped in a place even if the place was different. Big difference is that they believed in gods and also they had different ways of religious. Roman did not like people turning away from Roman religion, and that caused harsh punishment to Christian to occur. Christianity became popular in Rome is after “the Jesus movement” occurred in Judea. Another key point that needs to be discussed is what the Roman did to deal with the people who turned away from Roman religion to Christianity.

The Greeks and Romans were accepting of other gods from different cultures, but had contrasting approaches for ensuring a place in their religion. The Romans took religion very seriously and performed everything precisely. They adopted different gods and made them a part of the Roman religion. This would soon change as the Christian religion began to rise in popularity. In

As dissimilar as they were, the encounter between Judaism and the Hellenistic and Roman worlds – with the latter taking on much of what the Greeks stood for – should not be considered as a clash between civilizations. Doing so, I believe, would render a complex society and a dynamic process into an absolute and a static one. The postexilic period had obviously brought Jews into contact and in activity with the surrounding non-Jewish communities in which they now lived; however, this social and commercial interaction with the non-Jews was enhanced, like never before, with the emergence of the Greco-Roman eras. The Jews often managed to retain control over their own internal affairs and found favor before various rulers, but pagan ritual, idolatry, and Greco-Roman philosophies became almost impossible to avoid.

Judeo-Christian traditions influenced America’s thoughts of Justice, Morality, equality, and vaguely shaped the way our government thinks. Judeo-Christian tradition is made up of the moral and spiritual ideas of the two religions, Judaism and Christianity. Judaism began approximately 4000 years ago in the middle east, this monotheistic religion was the faith of the ancient Hebrews, later known as the Jews. Christianity emerged from Judaism and began 2000 years ago during the Roman empire. Christians were originally persecuted by the Romans, but soon became the official religion around 400 A.D, when a Roman emperor converted to the religion of Christianity. Christianity and Judaism share similarities, both are monotheistic, meaning they only

Both Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic contributed greatly to the development of the modern world, bringing into it the notions of democracy and republic. The evolution of these concepts took them to a level much higher than one present in Ancient Greece and Rome respectively. However, modern society continues to draw on somewhat idealized accounts of the ancient world for inspiration in improving today’s governing procedures.

The first author, who takes particular concern with the concept of tyranny, is Plato in his work the The Republic. He

The Greco-Roman world was a majority polytheistic, Judaism was the exception as the followers believed in a sole god. Deities of the Greco-Roman polytheistic religions were based on anthropomorphized representations of natural forces as

This essay will evaluate the Marxist theory that the ruling class in society decides the law and enforces it, to reflect their own interests.

Ancient Greece has been a religion- centered culture since the earliest period of habitation in Greece, the Pre-Mycenaean/Mycenaean period. Also through to the Dark Ages to the Classical period. It is a religiously centered civilization, and did have significant changes in the how it was incorporated into people’s daily lives. Religion is important to know about the Ancient Greeks because through it we are able to understand how they lived their lives.

Religion in the Classical period was based upon pagan beliefs. People of ancient times relied upon religion because it explained things that people could not explain using what they knew then. This same idea applied in the Hellenistic period, however, there was less pagan belief and more nihilistic views as far as religion went. In the Classical period, the "polis", or the city-state, was the focus of Greek life. The most important thing to the Greeks was their allegiance to the polis. To be exiled from the polis was worse than death. After the conquest of Greece and the unification of all of the polis, the Greeks lost their individuality. This caused an identity crisis and confusion among the Greeks. Eventually the turmoil caused by the conquest of Greece led to the gloomy and depressing views in Philosophy that were

By looking at the readings of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, there are a few distinctions between how the modern thinkers viewed politics versus the way the ancient thinkers believed politics should be. There are many topics both modern and ancient thinkers discuss in their writings, such as the purpose of politics, the science of politics, human nature, as well as the ideal regime. By doing so, these thinkers’ views on political topics such as these illuminate how they thought politics should work and who should be able to participate in the activity of politics.

The just exercise of political power is conceived of as resting upon constitutional principles. Constitutional principles are a position from which we operate justly. However, what constitutes as just? Throughout history political power derived from many historical foundations that were deemed just based on the society that upheld those principles. This notion is evident throughout the development of constitutional doctrines in Greek democracy, Aristotle’s political theory, Roman Republicanism, and English Constitutionalism.