Straatism In Ancient Greece
Klever Vasquez
Prof. Mathew Corcoran
Abstract
The political development of ancient Greece brought forth a relationship with the fabrication and further development of the self. As the psyche evolved from the Homeric Era to the Platonic Era, the individual self was faced with internal conflict. Statism had deep roots in Greek government by the Platonic Era; the mind manifested from primordial psyche into platonic/current day psyche given statism’s ability to open doors into individuality. It allowed people to gain individuality through ownership which ramifies past economic affairs and into social affairs. Aristocrats imposed this service by regulating the literary system, which was crucial to statism records, by inhibiting the poor from having any …show more content…
But democracy, the way we perceive it today, is an overstatement to what ancient Greece actually was, “… never was there a clearer case of “democracy” (in Athens) of special privilege, based upon the miseries of slave labor “the hardships of slaves in silver mines at Sunium was great)” (Winspear, 67). The aristocrats thrived on their power due to the economic stability slavery imposed on them, “ a fall in the supply of slaves was the ancient equivalent of a fall in the rate of profit and involved serious crisis both in the sphere of economics and in the interrelated spheres of thought” (Winspear, 67). Slavery allowed for the aristocrats to stay in power while forming this looming paradox of how minute the commoners were in society. Their lack of ownership put them in the same level as slaves, except slaves didn't have to fear hunger because their masters wouldn't kill their income, but commoners who's farms didn't yield enough to repay their debts from rent and still provide their families with food were bound into servitude. All the while, never having had a chance of individualization through
Prof. Mathew Corcoran
Abstract
The political development of ancient Greece brought forth a relationship with the fabrication and further development of the self. As the psyche evolved from the Homeric Era to the Platonic Era, the individual self was faced with internal conflict. Statism had deep roots in Greek government by the Platonic Era; the mind manifested from primordial psyche into platonic/current day psyche given statism’s ability to open doors into individuality. It allowed people to gain individuality through ownership which ramifies past economic affairs and into social affairs. Aristocrats imposed this service by regulating the literary system, which was crucial to statism records, by inhibiting the poor from having any …show more content…
But democracy, the way we perceive it today, is an overstatement to what ancient Greece actually was, “… never was there a clearer case of “democracy” (in Athens) of special privilege, based upon the miseries of slave labor “the hardships of slaves in silver mines at Sunium was great)” (Winspear, 67). The aristocrats thrived on their power due to the economic stability slavery imposed on them, “ a fall in the supply of slaves was the ancient equivalent of a fall in the rate of profit and involved serious crisis both in the sphere of economics and in the interrelated spheres of thought” (Winspear, 67). Slavery allowed for the aristocrats to stay in power while forming this looming paradox of how minute the commoners were in society. Their lack of ownership put them in the same level as slaves, except slaves didn't have to fear hunger because their masters wouldn't kill their income, but commoners who's farms didn't yield enough to repay their debts from rent and still provide their families with food were bound into servitude. All the while, never having had a chance of individualization through