Professor Mack Comparative Government (POLS 1220.32) 13 December 2011 The Art of Self-Interest: Sun-Tzu and Thucydides “Being fond of the truth‚ I am an admirer of antiquity‚” writes Confucius. (Kaplan‚ 40) The past contains lessons that apply to the future‚ because while time‚ place‚ individuals and creed change‚ people as a whole do not. The motivations are always the same. “Thus‚ as Aron notes‚ while our ideals have usually been peaceful‚ history has often been violent. Though this should
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Subsequently‚ Antony uses is powerful oration skills‚ on both the conspirators and citizens‚ to strive for justice for the old Roman leader as he commences the organization of the second triumvirate. Firstly‚ following Caesar’s death Antony requests that he be allowed to take the body to the town forum and give a funeral speech in honor and remembrance of Caesar’s life.Brutus agrees to the requests so Antony addresses the crowd by saying‚ If I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny
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Thucydides Versus Plato: Differing Views of the Good Life What is the true nature of the Good Life? Is it living life with concern for only oneself despite the possible consequences of one’s action on others? Or might it involve self-sacrifice in effort to do what one feels is right or just? Is it descriptive‚ or perhaps prescriptive? Two prominent Greeks‚ Thucydides and Plato‚ began providing answers to these questions over 25 centuries ago as they analyzed and wrote critically about life’s
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Thucydides’ History Of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ Advice Athens and Sparta fought for supreme control of Greece for 27 years. The Peloponnesian War is the name given to this conflict between these two powers. Pericles‚ a prominent Athenian politician and leader‚ offered wise advice to the Athenians at the start of the war on how to manage the war while fighting Sparta. He said: “[Don’t] add to the empire while the war is in progress … [or] go out of your way to involve yourselves in
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the person was no longer with their family‚ the funeral celebrated their time on earth and their transfer to the afterlife. Although Romans appear to have been uninterested in the fate of a person after death‚ their funeral practices and ceremonies showed a great deal of thought about the afterlife‚ particularly in the areas of the the depth and time put into the funerals and their beliefs of how exactly to transfer into the afterlife. The Romans funeral ceremonies had many different parts to them.
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Vision for the Plan: As a teacher‚ I want to be professional and a positive role model to my students. I want to have a good and supportive environment in my classroom so that it allows my students to have good opportunities to succeed. I will keep motivate my students to be better in their work and it is my job to make sure that each students learn something. Therefore‚ I plan to use positive reinforcement in the classroom and praise any positive behavior in the classroom. I will use the classroom
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We thought it was almost over. That we were going to let us live. To be done with it. They knew that the end of the war was coming. The Americans‚ British and French‚ were coming. But that is when they came up with the idea for the solution of the final solution. The deathmarch. I had never felt this cold before. It was cold so cold. But after all of these miles i began to not feel so cold anymore. Like I was in a trance. With momma’s hand in mine‚ we continued to shuffle our feet along the cold
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paper is to tell about one of the greatest ancient historians Thucydides‚ his ideas and to compare his point of view with other great philosophers and writers. Thucydides famous by his work ‘The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians’. He is the first western historians who strictly chronicled nearly 30 years of war between Athens and Sparta. The Peloponnesian War‚ one the largest conflicts in the Greek City State era. When Thucydides wrote about the war between Athens and Sparta he says: “beginning
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Kant and Thucydides‚ make some very significant and contrasting views on the nature of peace and man’s propensity to go to war. Kant‚ writing during the 18th century ‚ and Thucydides‚ an Athenian‚ commentating some 2000 years earlier during the 5th century BC are coming from very different experiences and historical settings. Kant postulates that it is reasonable to live in peace ‚ in a republic where citizens self rule and have ultimate control of their own destiny‚ Thucydides‚ on the other
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