Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens /

"This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech that was practiced by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saxonhouse, Arlene W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
To 1500
Freedom of speech > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Shame > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Freedom of speech
Politics and government
Shame
Demokratie
Redefreiheit
Meinungsfreiheit
Demokratie > Meinungsfreiheit > Griechenland > Athen > Geschichte > a.0500-a.0400.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Greece > Athens
Athen
Athen > Demokratie > Meinungsfreiheit > Geschichte > a.0500-a.0400.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Four Stories
  • the first: thersites
  • the second: diomedes son of tydeus
  • the third: thrasymachus
  • the fourth: socrates in jail
  • Part I introduction
  • the invocation of athens
  • 1 The Legacy of Free Speech
  • 1. government as ogre
  • 2 government as "the people"
  • 3. persecution and texts
  • 2 Democratic Amnesia
  • Part II AID212;S
  • 3 The Tale of Two Gyges: Shame, Community, and the Public/Private Self
  • 1. herodotus' gyges
  • 2. protagoras' tale
  • 3. shame and guilt
  • 4. the gaze, the truth, and the "other"
  • 5. shame and the liberal individual
  • 6. plato's gyges
  • Part III PARRH202;SIA: The Practice of Free Speech in Ancient Athens
  • 4 The Practice of Parrhesia
  • 5 The Trial of Socrates
  • 1. why was socrates executed?
  • 2. plato's apology: the unveiling of socrates and the transformation of shame
  • Part IV THE LIMITS OF FREE SPEECH
  • 6 Truth and Tragedy
  • 1. parrh234;sia: inclusion/exclusion
  • 2. aristophanes thesmophoriazusae
  • 3. euripides' phoenician women
  • 7 Thucydides' Assemblies and the Challenge of Free Speech
  • 1. free speech and the historical method
  • 2. the mytilenean debate
  • 3. the invasion of sicily
  • 8 Protagoras' Shame and Socrates' Speech
  • 1. the dialogic context
  • 2. youthful shame
  • 3. protagoras' shame
  • 4. socrates' speech
  • 5. "free" words
  • 6. coda
  • Conclusion Four Paradoxes
  • paradox 1: ancients and moderns
  • paradox 2: democracy and free speech
  • paradox 3: socratic philosophy and the democratic regime
  • paradox 4: shame and amnesia
  • References
  • Index.

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