Connections

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Binary Paideia In the AIHEs Liberty
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Grants
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Connections

• Between the Constitution Ancient Republics,
  English Precedents

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Polis? The State
POLITEIA The Regime
PAIDEIA What Makes a State What It Is
POLITEUMA The Ruling Order
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POLITEIA

• The Type of Regime
• Despotism
• Direct Democracy
• Republicanism
• Monarchy
• Fascist Authoritarian
• Communist Totalitarian

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POLITEUMA

• The Ruling Order
• Those who can dispense Offices and Honors

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PAIDEIA

• That what makes a city or society what it is
• Offices and Honors are given in accordance to the
  Paideia
• What a Society bows to

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VIRTUE

• For the Ancient Greeks
• LOGOS
• Reasoned Speech
• The Highest Moral Excellence
• The Highest Virtue
• Public Life
• Fraternity
• Private Life most like animals.

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Ancient Greeks

• Politeia Regime The Assembly
• Politeuma Ruling order Citizens
• Paideia What makes a city
• what it is Iliad Odyssey
• Virtue The highest moral excellence Participa
  tion in the Polis- Logos
• Contrasts Spartans Athenians
• Greeks Persians

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Founders Brought up on

• Greeks
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Romans
• Plutarch 46-120 AD
• Livy 59 BC 17AD
• Cicero 106 43 BC

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Founders Brought up on

• Machiavelli
• Bacon
• Hobbes
• Montesquieu
• Sidney
• Harrington
• Locke
• Hume

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Greek Problem

• Haves vs. Have-nots
• Have-nots can vote
• They continuously vote for war
• Constant faction quarrels

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ROME

• The Roman Republic was based on a military
• culture.
• Politeia Regime Comitia Centuriata
• Politeuma Ruling order Patrician,
  Nobility
• Paideia What makes Romulus a state
  Remus
• Virtue The highest Heroic Martial moral
  excellence Valor
• Pride, Honor
• Contrasts The Republic The Empire

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Major Change

• Christianity
• Universal Religion for Universal Empire
• Equality of All
• All can get to Heaven
• All can be become HOLY
• Highest moral excellence HOLINESS
• Otherworld Matters Most
• Private Life is Paramount

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GREEK LOGOS

• Remains

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New Culture melds

• Jerusalem
• Athens
• Rome

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MACHIAVELLIFather of Modern Liberal Democracy
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GOOD INSTITUTIONS

• Not Good Men as the Means to Good Government

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BALANCE

• CONFLICT
• TENSION
• Grandi Popolo united to destroy their neighbors

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VIRTUE

• In the Institutions

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CONTRAST

• Ancient Republics
• Medieval Republics
• Modern Republics

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Further Development

• Francis Bacon
• Thomas Hobbes
• James Harrington
• John Locke

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John Locke

• Continues the Move away from Christianity
• God gave man the EARTH
• God gave man REASON
• Natural Providence is a Reflection of Divine
  Providence

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Every Man has Property in His own Person

• Major Paradigm Shift
• The Labor or Work of my hands are mine ---- My
  Property
• Common land becomes my land.
• I work it. Its mine!

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GENESIS 128

• CHRISTIANS JEWS
• Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the
  Earth . . .
• BACON LOCKE
• . . . and subdue it.

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US 1860
P A I D I E A

• South
• State Govt w/i Federal Govt
• Planters
• Constitution,
• Hierarchy
• Slave Culture
• Honor

• North
• National Republic
• Male Citizens
• Declaration,
• Free Market
• Industrialization
• Industry

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1940

• UNITED STATES
• Federal Republic
• Citizens
• Declaration,
• Constitution,
• Bill of Rights
• Liberty, Industry, Duty, Patriotism

P A I D I E A

• NAZI GERMANY
• Totalitarian Dictatorship
• Nazi Party
• German Purity
• Mein Kampf
• Racial Superiority
• Loyalty, Service to the Volk

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BINARY PAIDEIA

• Republic
• Tories
• Colonists
• South
• Agrarian
• Socialist
• Totalitarian

• Monarchy
• Whigs
• British
• North
• Industrial
• Free Market
• Democratic

STORIES
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• Binary Paideia
• Changing Paideia Throughout History