
Ancient Politics: A Search for the Good Life
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Classical political theorists searched for the good life, while others of the ancient period conceptualized the good differently, which led to the expansive imperialism of ancient Athens, power-seeking sophists, and wars between regimes.
Thinking about what is the good also determines democracy, justice, virtue and ethics. Ancient political theorists cultivated philosophy as a search for wisdom to understand the practical affairs of the city.
This course explores the ideology of the good life through the works of ancient philosophers, politicians, poets and historians, and examines the political consequences of competing claims of the good.
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