Activité sur The Ancient Ethnostate

2021 • livre de Guillaume Durocher

Résumé : Biopolitics is as old as Western civilization itself. Twenty-five centuries ago, the Greeks ordered their societies according to ideals that enabled them to survive and thrive in a violent world: the rearing and education of children with a view to excellence and the common good, solidarity with kin, the cultivation of civic identity, and an intense patriotism inseparable from manly virtue. In all this, the Greeks had hereditarian insights into human nature that strikingly prefigured Darwinian science. The Ancient Ethnostate is an evolutionary survey of this golden thread in Greek literature from Homer to Aristotle. Above all, this book seeks to familiarize the reader with the remarkable mindset of the ancient Greeks, one which enabled them to realize astonishing political and cultural exploits.