Students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and Roman
philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western
and roman philosophy is very similar to Judaism and in Christianity to the
development of western political thought. All believe that people have the
right to make decisions. Also philosophers thought of ways that they could make
their culture better. The greeks and romans believed that the in order to make
the civilization better it needs to be a republic and that’s how western
political thought is.
similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law,
reason and faith, and duties of the individual.
are both similarities and differences between Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman
views of law, Reason, faith, and duties. Roman views of the world were
relitivly similar to the views of Christian people. Roman law and Christian are
different. Christian law was based on the 10 conmandments. Roman law was based
on what the pholosifers and senate desided on. Judeo-chrstains were
monotheistic and the Greco-Romans were polytheistic or believed in many gods.
The duties of the individuals were relitivly similar. Their were different
people for each job. Like farmers merchants philosophers tearchers and so on.
development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy
of tyranny, using selections from Plato's Republic and
Plato wrote the republic and in book he described
his idea of the bestgovernment. He did not like Athens democracy beacause they
killed Socrates, Instead plato said the best way was to have the state
regulates peoples every aspect of life. He divided into three classes, workers,
to make things important for life, soilders to defend the philosophers rule and
td the philosopher king were the head of the state. Politics written by
aristole said that the best way to rule land by one head leader.
influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary
The U.S constitution is really what started
democracy in the modern world. When our country was founded we were the only
democracy on the planet at the time. Now there is well over 100. Now many
countries have adapted parts of our constitution as their own. After England
became a democracy they adapted many of the same type of democracy as us. Even
though they might not admit it but the U.S is the country that started
the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights (1689), the
American Declaration of Independence (1776), the French Declaration of the
Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and the U.S. Bill of Rights (1791).
priciples of the magna carta affirms a long list of feudal rights besides
protecting their own privliges. It also has two basic ideas it asserted that
the nobles had certain rights. Second it made clear that the monarch must obey
the law. The English bill of rights its changed the laws of what the government
could and couldn’t do. The decliration of independence affirmed that it would
always be a democracy and no one could ever take that away. The French
decliration of the rights of man and the citizen says that all men are born
equal and free. The U.S of rights they had emmendment that even fearther
changed the government.