Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us - A Conversation with Josiah Ober
By Howard Burton
Length2h 6m
About this audiobook
This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Josiah Ober, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. This extensive conversation includes topics such as the serendipitous factors that led him to study the classical world, the insights that examining rhetoric provide about ancient Athenian society, and how social media might help us fruitfully recreate aspects of the past. Through an engaging dialogue format Josiah Ober discusses his insights that the ancient Athenians didn’t just happen to stumble upon the idea of democracy—they somehow managed to make it work in practice for the better part of 200 years, all the while facing many of the same divisive societal pressures that we are currently grappling with.
This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Back to the Future, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
I. Cutting One’s Wisdom Teeth - How a girlfriend’s dental work leads to Thucydides
II. Digging Deeper - Contrasting wars and lurking contradictions
III. Battling Iron Laws - Athenian democracy as a counterexample
IV. Feet to the Fire? - Using new and old media to keep politicians on point
V. Why Athens? - Addressing elite capture and economic and political equality
VI. Dissent - Critiquing our system or our values
VII. Enter Aristotle - The perils of being a cat in a box
VIII. Increasing Eudaimonia - Improving democracy
IX. Dignity - An essential ingredient of a flourishing democracy
X. Keeping It Real - Engaging the general public with scholarly insights
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Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, History
Length2 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9V. Why Athens?
2A Note on the Text
10VI. Dissent
3Introduction
11VII. Enter Aristotle
4The Conversation
12VIII. Increasing Eudaimonia
5I. Cutting One’s Wisdom Teeth
13IX. Dignity
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6II. Digging Deeper
14X. Keeping It Real
7III. Battling Iron Laws
15Continuing the Conversation
8IV. Feet to the Fire?
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