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dc.contributor.authorHesk, Jonathan Peter
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-19T16:30:15Z
dc.date.available2017-12-19T16:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-24
dc.identifier242241306
dc.identifier43a163d9-dcca-40fa-8941-b3c1bc58a209
dc.identifier.citationHesk , J P 2017 , ' Greek thinking, fast and slow. Euripides and Thucydides on deliberation and decision-making ' , Insights , vol. 10 , no. 8 . < https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/insights/HeskFinal.pdf >en
dc.identifier.issn1756-2074
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9727-6422/work/82788612
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12358
dc.descriptionThe author acknowledges the support of the Leverhulme Trust via a Research Fellowship award.en
dc.description.abstractEuripides’ Suppliant Women and Thucydides’ account of Pericles’ leadership within the Athenian democracy of 431/430 BCE are good examples of classical Greek texts which ask citizen-audiences to reflect very deeply on the processes by which they come to make political or legislative decisions in a council or assembly. They also stimulate reflection among elite citizens and leaders on their own involvement in such processes. Both texts achieve these forms of reflection by anticipating recent empirical work in sociology, political psychology, ‘behavioural economics’ and cognitive science. These anticipations may reflect an elite ‘paternalistic’ approach to political rhetoric and leadership to an extent. But in the case of the mass art form of Greek tragedy, its dramatization of ‘pathologies’ and ‘errors’ of both mass deliberation and leaders’ responses to them may have contributed to Athens’ relative success as a participatory ‘deliberative democracy’ in which the masses were sovereign.
dc.format.extent367735
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofInsightsen
dc.subjectPA Classical philologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccPAen
dc.titleGreek thinking, fast and slow. Euripides and Thucydides on deliberation and decision-makingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Classicsen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Researchen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/insights/HeskFinal.pdfen


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