How the Greek Agora Changed the World


	How the Greek Agora Changed the World

wildcat

3-18-2008 4:43 AM

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greece, agora, democracy

wildcat says:

we need a new kind of Agora

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3-18-2008 6:46 AM

abailart

Indeed. But not modelled on an elitist democracy limited to very few citzens in a society where the majority were not expected to take part.

3-28-2008 7:37 PM

Jorjor

What about the Internet as a virtual agora? And what will we do about agoraphobic people?

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What went on at the agora went beyond the simple daily
transactions of the market. The conversations that happened there and the ideas
that they bore continue to affect us to this day, from the way scientists carry
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Some of the world's most important ideas were born and
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