Polis

A polis was an urban city-like community in the classical Greek era. The polis has several interesting features, which include political, artistic and religious interactions. Firstly, the polis itself is the centre where political power is exercised, originally through the household of a king, or later on, through the assemblies for either oligarchies or democracies. This constitutes one of the beginnings of an open process of decision making in the state, even when the decision making group is…

word "politics" is derived from the Greek word polis. In meaning, a polis was the Greek’s political standpoint and community in which they lived. The polis or was the most important form of committee that dominated the Mediterranean world for 1300 years from 750 BCE to 500 CE. In practice a polis was an autonomous group of Greeks with its own citizen army its own set of laws and its own specific gods. So what did it mean to be a Greek who lived in a polis? Well, it meant many different things.…

city, or polis, should be run and how wealth can be acquired as well as how each city should be defined. A person’s relationship may be affected by what class they were born into, for example, slaves are central to creating and maintaining a polis. Of course while the city is built on people and their relationships, it still needs rules and regulations to keep these people in order. It is discussed in book three who is doing the ruling and electing which maintains a city. Being in a polis…

Mufaro Poli is my name and my style is the classic elegant look. I enjoy looking at designers such as Stephanie Roland, Ellie Saab. Zuhiar Murad. These are the designers that I get my inspiration from. I think that their work is elegant and classy even though they are not affordable to most people. I have a big interest in African clothing because of my origins. I am originally from Zimbabwe and I love the patterns and the difference African clothing has compared to other clothing. Additionally…

Life In A Polis Life in an ancient Greek Polis would differ vastly from daily life in a modern 1st world country. Today most people would start there day going to work, eat about three meals a day, and probably end their day watching tv or reading a book. In an ancient Greek polis, people would begin their day eating, men would go to work, women would raise the children, etc. I will attempt to explain what daily life might have looked like in ancient Athens and Sparta, and compare the…

essential to explore the concept of the ‘polis’ and the reasons as to why it emerged. The word ‘polis’ has multiple meanings that depend on the context of its use and to whom the question is directed towards. To understand what the word meant to the Archaic and Classical Greeks, it is crucial to understand the emergence of their city-states from small villages present in the Dark Ages, as well as how they identified themselves, as it is evident that the word ‘polis’ was used to refer to both.…

Maya Ohlinger Poli 813 Test 1 (Equal Means Equal and The New Jim Crow) Part 1 – Question 1 (Equal Means Equal) While some people don’t think that the Equal Rights Amendment is necessary because political institutions such as Congress, having the ability to pass preventative laws against discrimination, and the courts, having the capability of ruling discriminatory laws unconstitutional, may possess the power to fight for equality, there are multiple court cases where, while they possess the…

however, Socrates is adamant against an attempted escape, arguing [from the polis’ perspective] that, “Whoever of you remains…has in fact come to an agreement with us [the polis] to obey our [the polis’] instructions’ (51e).” Two questions arise from Socrates’ argument: Does tacit consent exist? And if it does exist, does it foster obedience within a society? In response, this paper will argue that in respect to the Athenian polis, tacit consent exists in two forms: the first form being where…

This is a paper comparing the Aristotle and Hobbes understandings of human nature. Aristotle states that man is a “political animal”, and that it is thus natural for man to live in a polis. Hobbes disagrees with this understanding of man a political animal, as he claims that man is actually a greedy being that is driven by power. Thus he feels that the natural state of man is a state of war. Although the two disagree initially about the man’s natural state, Aristotle comes to agree with Hobbes’…

creates a barrier between the citizen and the polis. Citizens feel that policies are too remote, so they do not sympathize with the polis. The difference between participation and partnership is this one element; a polis citizen is a partner and not a participant. Therefore, the individual/citizen also has a purpose. The purpose is happiness, and happiness is achieved by…