I just finished reading the essay on the Greek city Ampolo (essay included in the work Greeks Einaudi): It is amazing how much can still tell us the ancients on our present.
In particular I was struck by the concept of "face to face company, which was created precisely in the polis (I leave aside the question of the different concept of democracy, which is not comparable to the contemporary).
The problem in the polis (comparable to a state entity, as we conceive it today) is to combine the need for unity with the particular needs of individual communities, and when we speak of federalism, perhaps we are not faced with the same dilemma?
Ampolo writes: "In very different ways, which are reflected in the wide variety of institutions and political regimes, the Greek cities have combined the spirit of community by creating a unified framework relatively large, which was important not only 'affirmation of a unique identity on the political and religious (that of the polis) but also the participation and equitable distribution among all the various components. "
In particular I was struck by the concept of "face to face company, which was created precisely in the polis (I leave aside the question of the different concept of democracy, which is not comparable to the contemporary).
The problem in the polis (comparable to a state entity, as we conceive it today) is to combine the need for unity with the particular needs of individual communities, and when we speak of federalism, perhaps we are not faced with the same dilemma?
Ampolo writes: "In very different ways, which are reflected in the wide variety of institutions and political regimes, the Greek cities have combined the spirit of community by creating a unified framework relatively large, which was important not only 'affirmation of a unique identity on the political and religious (that of the polis) but also the participation and equitable distribution among all the various components. "
Instead of blather about federalism as equipment, proceeding slogans that mean nothing and everything, would be useful to extend his eyes, hear the history and culture and not expect to reduce a complicated issue as a bargaining chip, simplifying what is complex by nature.
But everything seems to be in the wrong hands, or at least heads unable to understand the complexity. And in this simplification creeps even thinking that a place is forever owned by a group and that no one can claim to be part of it if it is "foreign" or "not approved". So I copy
Ampolo, and I use a quote from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino:
But everything seems to be in the wrong hands, or at least heads unable to understand the complexity. And in this simplification creeps even thinking that a place is forever owned by a group and that no one can claim to be part of it if it is "foreign" or "not approved". So I copy
Ampolo, and I use a quote from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino:
"... sometimes different cities one another on the same site and under the same name, born and die without having known , communication among themselves. Sometimes the names of the inhabitants remain the same, and their voices' accent, and also the features of faces, but the gods who live beneath names and above places have gone without a word and in their place have settled foreign gods ".
Only the arrogance of fools you can think of any place that remains equal to itself for ever, without change, without contributions from various sources, without pollution by diversity.
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