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Binary Paideia In the AIHE’s Liberty Fellowships For US DoE Teaching American History Grants. Connections. Between the Constitution & Ancient Republics, & English Precedents. Polis The State. POLITEIA The Regime. PAIDEIA What Makes a State What It Is. POLITEUMA The Ruling Order.
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Binary Paideia In the AIHE’s Liberty Fellowships For US DoE Teaching American History Grants
Connections Between the Constitution & Ancient Republics, & English Precedents
Polis The State POLITEIA The Regime PAIDEIA What Makes a State What It Is POLITEUMA The Ruling Order
POLITEIA • The Type of Regime • Despotism • Direct Democracy • Republicanism • Monarchy • Fascist Authoritarian • Communist Totalitarian
POLITEUMA • The Ruling Order • Those who can dispense Offices and Honors
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
VIRTUE For the Ancient Greeks: LOGOS Reasoned Speech The Highest Moral Excellence The Highest Virtue • Public Life • Fraternity • Private Life most like animals.
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: Participation in the Polis- Logos Contrasts: Spartans Athenians Greeks Persians
Founders Brought up on: • Greeks • Plato • Aristotle • Romans • Plutarch 46-120 AD • Livy 59 BC – 17AD • Cicero 106 – 43 BC
Founders Brought up on: • Machiavelli • Bacon • Hobbes • Montesquieu • Sidney • Harrington • Locke • Hume
Greek Problem • Haves vs. Have-nots • Have-nots can vote • They continuously vote for war • Constant faction quarrels
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
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
GREEK LOGOS Remains
New Culture melds • Jerusalem • Athens • Rome
GOOD INSTITUTIONS Not Good Men as the Means to Good Government
BALANCE CONFLICT TENSION Grandi & Popolo united to destroy their neighbors
VIRTUE In the Institutions
CONTRAST • Ancient Republics • Medieval Republics • Modern Republics
Further Development • Francis Bacon • Thomas Hobbes • James Harrington • John Locke
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
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. It’s mine!”
GENESIS 1:28 CHRISTIANS & JEWS Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth . . . BACON & LOCKE . . . and subdue it.
South State Gov’t w/i Federal Gov’t Planters Constitution, Hierarchy Slave Culture Honor North National Republic Male Citizens Declaration, Free Market Industrialization Industry US 1860 P A I D I E A
NAZI GERMANY Totalitarian Dictatorship Nazi Party German Purity Mein Kampf Racial Superiority Loyalty, Service to the Volk UNITED STATES Federal Republic Citizens Declaration, Constitution, Bill of Rights Liberty, Industry, Duty, Patriotism 1940 P A I D I E A
Republic Tories Colonists South Agrarian Socialist Totalitarian BINARY PAIDEIA Monarchy Whigs British North Industrial Free Market Democratic STORIES
For More Information See Your CD-ROM Or, www.AmericanInstituteforHistory.org “Binary Paideia” “Changing Paideia Throughout History”