War is a Violent Teacher - Human Nature Laid Bare (Thucydides, Pt. 2)

A continuation of our new lecture series on Thucydides, author of The History of the Peloponnesian War, between Athens (the Delian League) and Sparta and her allies (the Peloponnesian League). In part one, we examined Thucydides' historical method. For part two we examine Thucydides' view of human nature, and in particular his account of the civil war in Corcyra and his view of democracy.

Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Man is innately good?
3:38 - Man is innately vicious
7:32 - Thucydides and human nature
8:46 - Civil war in Corcyra
20:31 - Paul's epistle to the Romans
22:31 - Political realism / realpolitik
24:50 - Problems with democracy

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Dr. Jonathan Barth received his PhD in history from George Mason University in 2014. He specializes in the history of money and banking in the early modern period, with corollary interests in early modern politics, empire, culture, and ideas. Barth is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University.
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