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Athenian leader after Pericles, framed by Jiang as lower nobility pursuing eudaimonia through aggressive war.
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Cleon
Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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Cleon is recast from demagogue to lower nobility pursuing eudaimonia through aggressive strategy against Sparta.
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Jiang speculates that Cleon and Brasidas may have been assassinated during battle because both threatened the internal social structures of their own cities more than enemy victory did.
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"...in Sparta. Okay? And this was the this was proposed by Cleon who after Pericles died became basically the de facto leader of Athens...."
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"...them win wars. Okay? So what ultimately happens is even though Cleon and Brasidas have both proposed strategies that allow Athens and Sparta to..."
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"...policy was just completely bonkers right um you had people like cleon um uh alcibiades uh they were demagogues um and they were causing..."
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"...the de facto king of Athens at this time but also Cleon who replaced Pericles as the leader of Athens he also made fun..."
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Mercouris opens by asking for predictive geopolitics rather than another issue-by-issue panel, and Jiang answers by folding Ukraine, Europe, Iran, China, and domestic American disorder into one machine.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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