THE FIGARO MAGAZINE.
- Why did you go looking in ancient Greece for models and political lessons?
Isn't this a world too far from us to have something operative to tell us?
MICHEL DE JAEGHERE
. - The Greeks are often glorified for having invented democracy. This is not without misunderstandings, since most of their intellectuals were reserved or downright hostile (in the case of Plato) to this regime, and that contemporary democracy obeys principles which are, as I endeavor to show in this book, very different from those of ancient democracy. What the Greeks invented is rather politics. They were the first to experience it by making each of their cities the framework of a deliberation on the Good and the Just. They reflected and wrote about this practice with all the enthusiasm of discovery, the freshness of the first time. They explored the pros and cons, virtues and
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