Athenian democracy and freedom as problematizing ethos

Abstract

This research paper shows that for the Greeks, the human condition is the basis for the creation of social and political order that makes the lives of men in communities possible. It underlines that human nature consists in cooperative elements that permit the preserve the agonal time: all men are endowed with political virtue. Men reach a higher state, called human nature, which enables them to live in community and the pursuit of perfection of that nature.