Thucydides and the Politics of Truth
Morley, N
Date: 28 December 2021
Journal
In Gremium
Publisher
University of Zielona Góra
Publisher DOI
Abstract
Populism, fake news, international rivalry and the plague: for many commentators, contemporary events seem to reflect those described by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. There is already a long tradition of seeing Thucydides as an authority on both the present and the future and the past, understood in a variety of ways: historians ...
Populism, fake news, international rivalry and the plague: for many commentators, contemporary events seem to reflect those described by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. There is already a long tradition of seeing Thucydides as an authority on both the present and the future and the past, understood in a variety of ways: historians emphasize the importance of historical knowledge, while social scientists see him as a pioneer of normative political theory. His work encourages such comparisons and convinces of its "usefulness" - not as a source of abstract principles of human behavior, but as a learning experience, an understanding of the importance of proper knowledge of the world and of the many situations in which human thinking may turn out to be wrong.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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