1999
DOI: 10.1177/0090591799027004001
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Thucydides on Human Nature

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“…Blinded by its predominant material power to the need for selfrestraints, the Athenians actively negated the possibility of pursuing moral means in achieving political ends and hubris led to imperial behaviors and self-defeating overexpansion. However, contrary to the Athenian example, the island of Melos, which clung to good faith, morality, and mere hope, incurred a similar fate as Athens, complicating Thucydides' true lesson and view of morality [13]. Thucydides, on the purpose of his History of the Peloponnesian War, states that "Events in accordance with human nature will recur in similar or comparable ways" and that "my work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever [12,13]."…”
Section: Fear Glory Advantage and The Athenian Dilemmamentioning
confidence: 91%
“…Blinded by its predominant material power to the need for selfrestraints, the Athenians actively negated the possibility of pursuing moral means in achieving political ends and hubris led to imperial behaviors and self-defeating overexpansion. However, contrary to the Athenian example, the island of Melos, which clung to good faith, morality, and mere hope, incurred a similar fate as Athens, complicating Thucydides' true lesson and view of morality [13]. Thucydides, on the purpose of his History of the Peloponnesian War, states that "Events in accordance with human nature will recur in similar or comparable ways" and that "my work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever [12,13]."…”
Section: Fear Glory Advantage and The Athenian Dilemmamentioning
confidence: 91%
“…Por um lado, o caráter trágico da narrativa e a consideração de um efeito negativo da peste que iria além do que natureza humana poderia suportar (2.50.1) abrem um certo espaço para pensar a dificuldade que teria tido Tucídides de conceituar com maior clareza a relação da peste com a natureza humana. Por outro lado, podemos considerar a possibilidade de que essa natureza não seja má como um todo, mas que apenas certos elementos seus o sejam e, talvez, apenas em certas circunstâncias, como colocaria Reeve (1999), embora este autor considere mais o episódio da stásis na Córcira, do qual trataremos abaixo. Essa perspectiva nos permitiria conciliar, em algum grau, as visões de Lebow e Ober.…”
Section: A Peste Em Atenas (247-54)unclassified
“…Para o Tucídides de Ober (2002), o sistema pode funcionar se os atenienses forem instruídos por discursos firmemente pautados nos interesses da pólis e na realidade material, algo que a democracia e o conhecimento democrático não garantem por si sós. Reeve (1999) defende que deve haver um equilíbrio entre a razão e as paixões humanas (todas características da natureza humana) e a liderança de Péricles foi justamente capaz de estabelecer esse balanço. Por sua vez, Farrar (2008) sustenta que Péricles direcionava e ensinava o démos, era capaz de convencê-los da prudência de suas posições e unificar seu comportamento em torno delas, assim como era capaz de conter as paixões dos cidadãos.…”
Section: Oração Fúnebre De Péricles (235-46)unclassified
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