Pericles

Greek traditions and beliefs still have a huge impact on our civilization in many ways, whether it be from architecture or from the stories written about their gods in that time period, it is obvious that they still impact us. Many of the gods and goddesses in that time period helped structure some beliefs that we still hold dear to us to this very day. One very important goddess from their beliefs is Athena. She is known as for representing many different qualities that the people in her cult…

Saving Lives: One Organ at a Time Presently, there are over one hundred thousand individuals waiting for a vital organ transplant on the national waiting list. And according to the LifeCenter Organ Donor Network, a new name is added to that list every ten minutes. Unfortunately, society has fabricated many myths about organ donation, causing a myriad of potential organ donors to change their view on the concept. But the need for organ donors continues to rise with every day that passes.…

The development of the “seeds” of modern society can be first found in Ancient Greece but Grecian civilization was greatly impacted by the societies that came before it. First the Mesopotamians, and then the Egyptians, moved from an agricultural and herding based culture to a new form of culture called civilization. This new culture was “marked by the appearance of urban centers, the mastery of smelting and with it the techniques for making metal tools and weapons, and the invention of…

Athens was the birth place of democracy, it was around 507BC when the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a series of political reforms known as the demokratia, which means ‘rule by the people’ (Cartledge, 2011) The following essay will assess the demokratia, arguing that ancient Athens was a real democracy. The first consideration is the great quality of democracy displayed in the Athenian political system. Then, the institutions that Athens had in place were democratic and produced…

Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It follows members of an exiled court as they flee to safety in the Forest of Arden. The characters experience an open and free space, very unlike the confines and corruption that accompanies court life. Jean E. Howard describes the importance of their refuge in the forest in “As You Like It”: “The play thus participates in the rich tradition of Renaissance pastoral literature in which the rustic world of forest and field offer an alternative to and a sanctuary…

definitions. These include the following: majority rule while maintaining minority rights, individual liberty , and fair elections. Majority rule is commonly used in democracies to make decisions. Majority rule protects the views of the common majority. Pericles, the…

Be it as it may, the fact is that Athenian democracy has remained an inexhaustible source of inspiration for many theorists and statesmen. The epitome of democracy in Ancient Greece was to be found in politics of Pericles. However, what is interesting is that among ancient philosophers prevailed those who criticized democracy over those who praised it (Plato, Aristotle [who favoured politeia, i.e., constitutional government], but also later modern philosophers, like…

The contemporary perspective of democracy is that all citizens should have the right to participate in elections and control the structure of the government and who holds office. For example, numerous people consider America undemocratic because Trump won the presidential election losing by two million votes, and that the voice of the people was not accurately represented because the final decision was put into the hands of the electoral voters. One of the earliest forms of democracy evolved in…

theoretical-physicist, introduced his theory of relativity, time became another phenomenon and mostly likely, acquired more definitions. In addition, Einstein’s suspicion not only changed the studies of science and physics but even art and literature. Pericles Lewis explains in his Cambridge Introduction to Modernism that Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity transformed the modernist conception of time’s linear progression into the notion…

I chose my friend in Philosophy to be Plato, and he is one of the most well-known philosophers who ever lived. Plato was born in Athens Greece, and is believed to be born in the years of 428-427 BCE (Britannica). Plato died within the years of 348-347 BCE, and he is believed to have lived as old as eighty one or eighty four years old. In his life he became a student under Socrates teachings, and Socrates was one of the first philosophers known, who is also the first to have his ideas and…