Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment. - Moses Finley
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
- Moses Finley
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. - Moses Finley
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.
Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of neces… - Moses Finley
Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of neces…
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiali… - Moses Finley
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiali…
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks. - Moses Finley
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remar… - Moses Finley
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remar…
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". - Moses Finley
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many diff… - Moses Finley
We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many diff…
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had ther… - Moses Finley
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had ther…
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