Explain the origins and activities of the Delian League The origins of the Delian League was to fight the Persians (offensive), to ensure that Greece was not attacked again. The League was slowly transformed into an Empire. The Delian League was established in 477BC. The aim of the League was ‘to compensate themselves for their losses by ravaging the territory of the King of Persia (Thucydides). De Ste Croix believes that the “prosklema” translated by traditional scholars such as Meiggs as simple “aims” actually had an imperialistic connotation, because prosklema was a “professional aim”.
(Lawhead 2011:15-16). However, the pre-Socratic philosophers brought about change through discrediting the accepted mythical thinking that all things can be explained by means of the nature of the Greek gods. They went about removing the negativity surrounding knowledge at the time in order to facilitate human beings to determine truth for themselves instead of blindly believing explanations of a blind nature. This opened up a consideration for knowledge from a naturalistic standpoint (Curd & Graham 2008:8). The theories of the pre-Socratic philosophers were generally characterised by their link to perception.
I am also not convinced that the concept of 'Big History' is applicable to the understanding of human history or that of 'Small History'. Firstly, what is history? and why do we learn history? History can be said to be the study of how the world has evolved by past events. It is a record of human experiences.
The secrets that are found that occurred somewhere in history are because someone was searching or exploring their curiosity and intellectuality in order to find them. When Prometheus writes: “The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.” (Rand, 52), he is referring to how people are
Firstly I would like to point out that I am not certain that Dean is in fact the Messiah, these are merely theories and hypothesis. Here are my arguments for Dean being the Messiah not in detail. Each individual argument will be further explained later depending on the general response of this blog. I do not appreciate haters. These are some of my main arguments:
The Rhetra: The Great Rhetra refers to the laws that were given to the people of Sparta, these outline the duties and responsibilities of the Spartan people in return for certain rights. These laws are outlined in verses called the Rhetra, and was supposedly given to Lycurgus, from the Delphic Oracle, for the people of Sparta if they were to rise up and become a powerful nation. The two king system: The two king system refers to a part of the Spartan constitution that defines the form of monarchical government within Sparta, this system that is employed in Sparta is radically different from what is being used elsewhere in the world at this time. The two king system, ironically, involves two kings descended from two different royal families,
Each God had an intended day of worship for which temples were built throughout the land. Government: Greece was first ruled over by kings, then switched to the Oligarchy form of government. However, democracy is the current form of government used in Greece. Kings also ruled during early times in Rome, until the citizens developed a form of government that allowed them to govern themselves. Eventually the power of ruling was given to an Emperor, such as Julius Caesar.
“Democracy; by the sword, principles and the spirit” Democracy is the form of government which derives its power from the people. Democracy came from the two Greek words Demos, ”people” and “kratos” which means power. Etymologically, it means the rule of the people. To me, the Democracy that the Ancient Athenians embraced is a Democracy of the Sword, a collective consciousness of the Ancient Athenian objection to the Socratic idea of a Philosopher King and the desire for political equality. It is apparent on how the Ancient Athenians executed Socrates after the series of attempts of his followers to destroy Democracy.
In the other hand, if such reasoned conclusions are only built originally upon a organization of sense perceptions, then the arguments what are being considered. They lead us to our most logical conclusions, they can never be said to be certain because they are built upon
Compare and contrast our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future To compare our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future, it first must be determined what ‘knowledge’ is. According to Plato knowledge is “a justified true belief”. So, knowledge must have a logical evidence and to be approved by society and facts. However, to define ‘knowledge’ is not as easy as it seems. The following quote from Bertrand Russell demonstrates it: "The question how knowledge should be defined is perhaps the most important and difficult one with which we shall deal.