Alcibiades made enemies wherever he went. He also had as many loyal friends and Socrates found he had a natural inclination for virtue. Alcibiades was capable of both good and evil only that he had to be tested by events to show what he really was.
Pericles was his guardian and the great man himself in [...]
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Scale Of Representation
Posted in politics, tagged equity and Justice, Law, patriotism on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Heads You Lose, Tails I Win ©
In a curious town called Pie-In-The Skye one was caught for highway robbery. The peasants who overwhelmed him would not let him go. He struggled hard. Defeated he said in the end,” I am Red Baron! I rob the rich to pay the poor.” He said it as though [...]
Prisoners We All
Posted in history, tagged Ancient Greece, moral philosophy, Plutarch's Parallel Lives on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What made Athens great? We only need to read accounts of Plutarch, Thucydides and Xenephon to know why. Take Pericles for example. He impressed his name to an age by the force of his character. His funeral oration to commemorate the honor and glory of the fallen comrades still moves us. Therein he showed to [...]
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