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- Title
On the Ancient Uses of Political Fear and its Modern Implications.
- Authors
Kapust, Daniel
- Abstract
The article discusses the uses of political fear in the ancient political thought. The author states that fear was understood to help provide the goods and moral energy and political unity by authors including Plato, Aristotle and Livy. It describes that the use of fear in ancient political thought was far from homogeneous. The status of fear in ancient thought depended on three factors which include the number and qualities of those who experience it, a function of its source, and a function of the ends that it serves. It states that the varied effects of fear in ancient political thought shows that the crucial issue involved in the study of fear is its particular uses.
- Subjects
IDEA (Philosophy); FEAR; POLITICAL science; POLITICAL ethics; CONCORD; ANCIENT ethics; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; LIVY, ca. 59 B.C.-17
- Publication
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2008, Vol 69, Issue 3, p353
- ISSN
0022-5037
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jhi.0.0003