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The article in the issue 4:3:

The date of the publication:
2016-02-04
The number of pages:
55
The issue:
4:3
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Andrzej Dąbrowski, Kamil I. Bakhtiyarov, Andrew Schumann, Rico Vitz, Krzysztof Pancerz, Andrzej Szelc, Mehdi Shokri,

Was born 1987 in Tehran, Iran. He is a Ph.D. student in Freie Universitaet-Berlin, Germany, majoring in political theory and the fellow of Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. His research is an interdisciplinary approach in political science, philosophy, behavioral analysis, jurisprudence, and comparative international relations. From 2004 to 2008 he worked on Ancient Greek political theories such as Plato, and Aristotle; then from 2008 through 2010 Medieval and modern political theories. Since then, in his research, he concentrates on the legitimacy of regimes, Human Rights, policy-making methods, the legal theories and modern legal system. Moreover, he ties the Middle East as his regional interest with the political and legal approach to the modern  political and jurisprudence debates.

Email: Mehdi.Shokri@FU-Berlin.de, Shokri.Phil@gmail.com

 

 

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Rhetoric Tradition and Democracy:
Isocrates’ Role in Ancient Greek Political Idea.
Start Point of Western Political Philosophy

Political participation and the public education that have always been deployed to support the incipient progress of the civic life are revived in the modern political discourses. It has been believed that the age of pre-Socrates was the age of the Sophists whose acrid fallacy works occupied the political sphere, a malaise in government. However, speaking non-traditionally in the modern pedagogical system, there were some pre-Socratic thinkers and political philosophers/orators who’s works are the backbone of modern discourse on this matter. It will be examined whether any part of the classical rhetoric apparatus can be recovered and put to a good practice in the modern education and modern political participation. This point will be illustrated, furthermore, in this paper by alleging the importance of rhetoric, its role in Ancient Greek Democracy, and its influence on the modern concepts of power and democracy, as a continual element in a historical-political life. The further consideration is whether there was any democratic Polis existed in Ancient Athens and then, if there was, what characteristics it consisted of. Moreover, whether such concept can or should be considered in modern political discourses. In this sense, the liberal, non-dogmatic strain of the sophistry of Isocrates tradition urges us to indicate that the findings of this educational principles are, if not necessary, but adjutant complementary metes to our modern political knowledge of the states. In the end, it is inquired to see comparatively that how the tradition of rhetorical art and the concept of power in the Ancient Greek society have pertained to the modern democratic elements and whether we are able to empower this influential element in modern states.

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