Posted on 10/19/2024 2:57:53 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Is your government slowly becoming tyrannical? Aristotle warned us 2,300 years ago.
In this eye-opening exploration of Aristotle's analysis of tyranny, we delve into the timeless insights of one of history's greatest political thinkers. Drawing from Aristotle's great work "Politics," we uncover the mechanisms of tyrannical rule that are as relevant today as they were in ancient Greece. Discover how Aristotle's experiences with the Thirty Tyrants of Athens and his personal relationship with the tyrant Hermias shaped his understanding of unjust rule.
Learn the tactics tyrants use to rise to power and maintain their grip on society - from manipulating public opinion to undermining social trust. We'll explore the true nature of tyranny according to Aristotle, how tyrants differ from legitimate rulers, the ways tyrannies often come to power, Aristotle's list of tyrannical tactics, many still used today, and why Aristotle believed all tyrannies are doomed to fail.
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:40 What is Tyranny? 3:58 Rise of Tyrants 5:59 Tactics of Tyrants 9:50 Downfall of Tyrants 12:10 Outro
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Let's go Brandon.
Personally, I prefer Plato’s Symposium on Love. One of the great pieces.
If you can’t get rid of them, change them.
(...at least as often as diapers.)
Tyrannies are always bloated with debt and bankrupt. That always lies at the base of their need for control
I studied classical Greek, but I’m too lazy to get the text and read the original, and my dictionary got lost. So instead I listen to videos explaining it while I do other stuff that’s not intellectually demanding. So this video’s tailor made for me.
I do enjoy Aristophanes, though. He’s very playful with the words, making up bizarre compounds.
Most classes, except physics, chemistry and math, were off original sources in English at U of Chicago. I still have all the old collections in the hall bookcases. Try occasionally to go back, but it’s a hard plough and I give up. Symposium, however, is pure pleasure. Physics/History of Art here.
And I have to admit that I do prefer humor.
“Journal of Alexander the Great” by Henry Livingston (1793)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByGN29_5VRQ
Bkmk
Just like at the Roman Empire and the British Empire, and now America 🇺🇸.
Aristotle did not have a front-row seat at the brief (404-403 BC) rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens following the Peloponnesian War - he’d be born 20 years later - but knew very well many of the participants, the survivors, at least. Chief among the Tyrants was Critias, an ex-student of Socrates, who openly mocked Critias and refused to obey his order to arrest a mutual acquaintance. In 8 months of rule the Tyrants managed to murder 5% of Athens’ entire population. Interesting times.
the BIG difference between THESE United States of America and all of the other freedom-loving countries that turned into tyrannies is WE have a Second Amendment and not a single one of the others did. why do you think our government wants your guns? the Founders of this Great nation KNEW what the future would be under an all powerful government because THEY had read and studied all of the great works we take for granted. WE, as Americans, have a Constitutional right to change our form of government but the ONLY GUARANTEE we have been given to protect that right is the Second Amendment. lose this right and all of the rest do not matter.
Aristotle considered the possession of arms synonymous with possession of political power: "when the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name -- a constitution . . . in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens" (Book 3, ch VII).
Thanks for posting that quote!
From our Declaration Of Independence;
” . . . when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Abuses = enacting unConstitutional laws, regulations and EOs.
Usurpations = Stealing elections, lawfare, no swift justice as promised, spending beyond means, onerous taxes, exempting law makers from laws they make etc, etc.
Our Revolution was touched off (flintlock term) by a tyrannical King attempting to confiscate our weapons.
I can't say they invented lawfare because there are earlier examples (Naboth was a victim of lawfare practiced by Jezebel: see I Kings 21).
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