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PBS Empire Series: Greek: Crucible of Civilizations

PBS Empire Series: Greek: Crucible of Civilizations. A Legacy of Trade, Technology, Democracy, Arts, Architecture, Science, Warfare, Philosophy, and Imaginations. Main Issues. Competition between city state (Athens) and empire (Iran) Xenophon: economics = family management + public finance

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PBS Empire Series: Greek: Crucible of Civilizations

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  1. PBS Empire Series: Greek: Crucible of Civilizations A Legacy of Trade, Technology, Democracy, Arts, Architecture, Science, Warfare, Philosophy, and Imaginations

  2. Main Issues • Competition between city state (Athens) and empire (Iran) • Xenophon: economics = family management + public finance • Samuelson: choice between cannon and butter • Technology and military power • Democracy: its strength and weakness, why it was not sustained? • The meaning of an civilization: arts, science, and great ideas • Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

  3. Selection Mechanism in Social Evolution • Gene selection: family and kin-selection • Individual selection: arts and science? • Group selection: war and states • Individualism is a sure winner??? • Advantage and disadvantages of individualism

  4. Competing Social Theories and Historical Evidence • Plato > Utopia: Ideal city state = philosopher king+communist soldiers+citizens) • Aristotle > Classification of states: monarchy, aristocracy, democracy • Rousseau: Social contract, man was born free • Adam Smith: Invisible hand • Marx: Class struggle and evolution from classless to class society • Coase: Two-person free bargaining leads to optimal institution > history does not matter • Huntington: Conflicting civilizations

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