Moses Finley citations

Moses Immanuel Finley, né en 1912 à New York et mort en 1986, est un historien d'origine américaine naturalisé britannique en 1962, spécialiste de l'Antiquité grecque. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. mai 1912 – 23. juin 1986
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Moses Finley Citations

“Une société politique authentique, où la discussion et les débats sont une technique essentielle, est une société pleine de risques.”

Démocratie antique et Démocratie moderne (Democracy ancient and modern), 1973

Moses Finley: Citations en anglais

“Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 3, Democracy, Consensus and National Interest, p. 96

“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 there been no Athenian empire.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 3, Democracy, Consensus and National Interest, p. 87

“What is good for a country? What is the national interest?”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 3, Democracy, Consensus and National Interest, p. 76

“for it is conflict combined with consent, not consent alone, which preserves democracy from eroding into oligarchy.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 73

“In the western world today everyone is a democrat.”

Preface, p. ix
Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985)

“If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension."”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60

“In Rome much pamphleteering took the form of verses and songs, circulated orally, or of libelli, defamatory placards or broadsheets”

whence our word "libel"
Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 5, Censorship in Classical Antiquity, p. 150

“A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 4, Socrates and After, p. 140

“From Aristophanes to Aristotle, the attack on the demagogues always falls back on the one central question: in whose interest does the the leader lead?”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 43

“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 potentiality of his nature.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 3, Democracy, Consensus and National Interest, p. 90

“Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 6

“And nothing inhibited fourth-century orators in the assembly and the law-courts from indulging in savage slander, without a touch of humour in it.”

Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 5, Censorship in Classical Antiquity, p. 171-172

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