Pax Romana Analysis

As prominent lecturer Joseph Campbell certified, “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” At first glance, Author Campbell appears to be belaboring of humans’ unwillingness to venture outside of their comfort zone to accomplish set goals. But beyond that, Campbell is candidly depicting the human’s natural state of fear that has often shook empires and entire kingdoms. For this, it has become common today to dismiss certainty’s contributions to social prosperity as ominous; characterizing it as diminutive and myopic. Similarly, conventional wisdom has it that doubt is a direct leader to spiritual annihilation. But are such assertions plausible? Campbell’s quotation explores notions of certainty and doubt as recurring aspects of everyday life; and reasons that their rife use is in fact essential in to fulfill humans’ needs. While both might be needed to foster further economic and social developments, the effects they impose on nations might be more deleterious than initially reserved. …show more content…
In other words, a small change in one drastically affects the other. Consider the Pax Romana, an era that witnessed unprecedented economic prosperity in the Roman Empire. As the population quickly swelled, the government saw the need to maintain law, order, and stability among the empire. The certainty manifested in the government proliferated achievements in engineering and the arts. The huge lavishly decorated houses resembled a new height to the empire- an empire that emphasized the need to have a political foundation that would bring about social growth. The Roman’s choice to rebuff doubt fostered the emergence of a era when higher levels of education marked a higher social status. An increased sentiment of certainty and security across the empire decreased the likelihood of its demise; thus constricting the existence of doubt among its