Relevant Hellenic Factors Favoring Effective Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2770021 |
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| Authors | Leonidas Bargeliotes (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 205-229 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00621.x |
| OpenAlex | W2063668671 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The paper presents and analyzes the war/peace issue in the Hellenic tradition and its relevance to the contemporary world. It is focused on some of the Hellenic factors that were successfully used in antiquity to overcome conflicts and war and to achieve a harmoniously existing world. The factors that can be used as paradigmatic cases are the conceptions of divine kosmos and of polis; effective dialogue; the education of rulers and of citizens so as to be able to govern themselves and use their power in order to preserve civilization for posterity and to sustain their values, to oppose stasis and to embrace homonoia, to overcome conflicts and to preserve peace in more than two hundred city-states. In addition, I argue that the long and rich Hellenic experience is relevant to our epoch in the sense that it is universally known for its anti-polemic policy and its peace movements. Conceptions such as kosmos and organismic polis, the practice of laws and of homonoia, or friendship, can contribute to the solution of our local and world problems and the prevention of contemporary violence, terrorism, and wars. They can be used by future generations as a model of how to prevent the repetition of another holocaust, of any extermination of human beings by human beings (Dachau), or of any war tragedies (bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). They show, above all, how humanity can achieve a lasting world peace
Civilization · Environmental ethics · Friendship · Humanity · Order (exchange) · Peaceful coexistence · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · The Holocaust · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions
| Highly cited | No |
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