La storia, la morale e la politica in Tucidide
Journal title TEORIA POLITICA
Author/s Giovanni De Grandis
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2008/3
Language Italian Pages 30 P. 31-60 File size 238 KB
DOI 10.3280/TP2008-003002
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History, Ethics and Politics in Thucydides - The paper analyses Thucydides’s views on history, ethics and politics trying to highlight how they affect each other. Thucydides has a tragic conception of history, according to which, notwithstanding the presence of some constants, human vicissitudes are open to unpredictability and chance. This view is closely related to Thucydides moral outlook, which is interpreted as a version of moral pluralism that recognises two mutually incompatible families of values: those related with greatness and success, and those stemming from compassion and pity. Coming to politics, it is argued that Thucydides’s most valuable contribution lies in his penetrating analysis of the dynamics of power and in particular in his understanding of the fundamental importance of the dialectic between stabilizing and chaotic factors. Political thought should take account of those factors and that means that historical and empirical considerations should enter political theory no later than moral ideals and normative standards.
Giovanni De Grandis, La storia, la morale e la politica in Tucidide in "TEORIA POLITICA" 3/2008, pp 31-60, DOI: 10.3280/TP2008-003002