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| #603453 in Books | Cartledge Paul | 2016-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.30 x9.40l,.0 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | Democracy A Life||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Outstanding … But For One Caveat|By GDP|Occasionally a book can be edifying, but some element of it leaves the reader feeling a little disappointed and prevents a five star rating (or leaves one thinking, "What could have been"?). Such is the case with Paul Cartledge's 'Democracy: A Life' published by Oxford University Press.
First, the overwhelming positive
Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat.
In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democra...
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