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Pritchard David <1970-> |
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Public spending and democracy in Classical Athens / / David M. Pritchard |
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Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture |
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Finance, Public - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500 |
Democracy - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500 |
War and society - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500 |
War - Economic aspects - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500 |
Athens (Greece) Appropriations and expenditures History To 1500 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Public-spending debates -- The cost of festivals -- The cost of democracy -- The cost of war -- Conclusion : public-spending priorities. |
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In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and “the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.” This view of the Athenians’ misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh’s 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmo s for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians’ priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh’s time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full |
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control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people. |
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UNINA9910974927703321 |
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Autore |
Jābirī Muḥammad ʻĀbid |
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Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought / / Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri |
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London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2008 |
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9780755608379 |
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9780857712042 |
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9781441615916 |
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9786000002886 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences |
International library of ethnicity, identity and culture |
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321.809174927 |
909.0974927 |
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Democracy - Arab countries |
Equality - Religious aspects - Islam |
Human rights - Arab countries |
Islam and state |
Human rights |
Arab countries Politics and government 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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VOLUME I: Religion, State and the Application of Islamic Shari'ah -- Part One: The Question of Religion and the State -- Chapter 1: Religion and the State in the Authoritative Cultural Referent -- Chapter 2: Religion and State in the Renaissance Authoritative Referent -- Chapter 3: Religion, Politics and Civil War -- Part Two: The Question of Applying al-Shari'ah -- Chapter 4: Awakening and Renewal -- Chapter 5: Traditionalism (al-salafiyah).. or The Historical Experience of the Nation? -- Chapter 6: Extremism: Right and Left -- Chapter 7: Extremism Between Creed and al-Shari'ah -- Chapter 8: For the Procession of Ijtihad -- Chapter 9: The Rationality of the Rulings of al-Shari'ah -- Chapter 10: Rulings and Dependence -- Chapter 11: Every Age has its Special Needs -- Chapter 12: 'Avoid the Hudud Penalties when in Doubt' -- Chapter 13: Concerning 'Complete Application of al-Shari'ah' VOLUME II: Democracy and Human Rights -- Part One: Democracy: Its Historical Role in the Arab World -- Chapter 1: A Demands in the Arab World -- Chapter 2: Al-Shura and Democracy are not One and the Same -- Chapter 3: The Difficult Birth -- Chapter 4: Partnership in Human Governance -- Chapter 5: Democracy and the Right to Speak -- Chapter 6: No Way Out Except Through a Historical Bloc -- Part Two: Democracy and the Current Arab Reality -- Chapter 7: The Problem of the Transition to Democracy -- Chapter 8: Objective Situations Conducive to Democracy -- Chapter 9: Contemporary Arab Ideology and its Doubts about Democracy -- Chapter 10: Dispersing the Doubts about Democracy -- Chapter 11: The State that Swallows up Society -- Chapter 12: Civil Society and the Elites in the Arab Nation -- Chapter 13: Elites Fear Democracy -- Chapter 14: Democracy, a Necessity -- Part Three: Cultural Implantation of Human Rights in the Contemporary Arab Conscience -- Chapter 15: Human Rights: Particularity and Universality -- Chapter 16: Universality of Human Rights in the European Point of Reference -- Chapter 17: Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Reason and Innate Nature -- Chapter 18: Universality of Human Rights in the Islamic Authoritative Point of Reference: Covenant and al-Shura -- Chapter 19: Philosophy of Human Rights and Religion -- Chapter 20: Freedom is One Things, Apostasy Another -- Chapter 21: Women's Rights in Islam: Between the Fundamental Principles of al-Shari'ah and its Particular Rulings -- Part Four: Enhancing Awareness of Human Rights in Islam -- Chapter 22: The Concept of the Human Being in Modern Though -- Chapter 23: The Concept of the Human Being in the Qur'an -- Chapter 24: The Right to Life and its Enjoyment -- Chapter 25: The Right to Freedom of Belief, Knowledge and Difference -- Chapter 26: Al-Shura between the Qur'an and the Circumstantial Interpretations -- Chapter 27: The Right to Equality and the Question of 'Preference' -- Chapter 28: Slavery and the Rights of Women -- Chapter 29: The Right to Justice: The Strength of the Qur'anic Text and the Vacillation of the 'Advisory Discourse' -- Chapter 30: The Rights of the Weak Oppressed: The Right of the Poor to the Wealth of the Rich -- Chapter 31: Social Security in Islam: Necessity of Development -- Chapter 32: The Rights of God, the Rights of People: Application of al-Shari'ah. |
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"Throughout the Middle East, and in the west as well, there has been much discussion concerning the notion of Islamic rule and the application of shari'ah by the state. Central to these debates are the three key themes that Mohammad Abed al-Jabri looks at in this book: democracy, human rights and law. Jabri, one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Middle East, examines how these three concepts have been applied in the history of the Arab |
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world, and shows that they are determined by political and social context, not by Islamic doctrine. Jabri argues that in order to develop democratic societies in which human rights are respected, the Arab world cannot simply rely on old texts and traditions. Nor can it import democratic models from the West. Instead, he says, a new tradition will have to be forged by today's Arabs themselves, on their own terms. Through analysis of contemporary Arab ideology, its doubts about democracy, whether human rights are universal and the role of women and minorities in Islamic society, he expounds on the most pertinent issues in modern political philosophy. This lively interrogation of the building blocs of western conceptions of a modern state is a classic text and is vital for all students of modern Islamic political thought. Mohammed Abed al-Jabri (1936-2010) was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rabat. As one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Arab world, he authored many acclaimed books including, in Arabic: The Structure of Arab Reason, Arab Political Reason' and Arab Ethical Reason, and in English: The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World (I.B.Tauris, 2011)--Bloomsbury Publishing." |
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