![]() ![]() In this article, we consider a current problem of politics and how an ancient author helps us approach it. Asking what ancient authors meant and how we should understand them today is important, partly because we need to consider how they might help us better deal with our pressing current problems. The study of intellectual history is desirable for its own sake. Study of ancient authors may help with current problems. Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, book I, chapter 22 (Hobbes' translation.) And it is compiled rather for an everlasting possession, than to be rehearsed for a prize. But he that desires to look into the truth of things done, and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again, or at least their like, he shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable. ![]()
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