caa a22 4500 386342962 CHVBK 20180307111800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1956442 doi S0003055400082332 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1956442 Orwin Clifford University of Toronto Piety, Justice, and the Necessities of War: Thucydides' Delian Debate [Elektronische Daten] [Clifford Orwin] Political philosophy or science first emerged in response to certain contradictions in political life that thoughtful citizens could not but face. Nowhere is this process better portrayed than in Thucydides, who of all great students of politics remains closest to the perspective of practice, at the same time showing how practice points us toward a place of critical distance from politics. The Greek political world, like all prescientific worlds, acknowledged certain gods who, as rulers, made demands on humankind. But because these were neither the only, nor in practice the most insistent, demands made on humankind, the question necessarily arose as to the gods' status in the event of conflict—as to the relative necessity of these divine demands. From this followed the further question—crucial for the emergence of political science or philosophy—as to whether the political world was ruled indeed by the gods or by necessity. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/1(1989-03), 233-239 0003-0554 83:1<233 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1956442 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1956442 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Orwin Clifford University of Toronto NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/1(1989-03), 233-239 0003-0554 83:1<233 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge