Abril 2009. USA . Miami 7th -9th April. 2009. International Congress on Identity and Identification in Antiquity, held at the FIU (International University of Florida). Comunicación: Aristotle´s Response to fourth century Athenian society
Aristotle’s response to fourth century Athenian society https://www.academia.edu/2108440/Aristotles_response_to_fourth_century_athenian_society In the fourth century B C, the democratic political system focused on the ‘polis’, which did not fit with the new situation of the individual, went through a crisis at its highest point. New and more realistic projects foretelling different social and cultural horizons began to appear. The Athenian citizens developed a critical attitude towards the democratic postulates of the preceding period. They began to value other forms of government not strictly democratic. And, in the case of the philosophers, they proposed political structures, which can be considered theoretically perfect but utopian in practice. This lack of interest in the political life, compared with the characteristic activism of the previous century, is reflected on several levels. To begin with we have the New Comedy, which, confronting the social criticism o