GLOBAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

Tevdovski, Ljuben and Masalkovski, Ile (2020) GLOBAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHALLENGES LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY. Towards a Better Future: Human Rights, Organized Crime and Digital Society, 1. pp. 260-290. ISSN 978-608-4670-14-8

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Abstract

The plague of Athens represented the beginning of the end of the “Periclean Golden
Age” in Athens and Hellas, but it brought in the city an ideological revolution lead
by Socrates that have challenged Athens’ cultural and moral particularism and
empowered the creation of the classical world. Socrates and his student Plato
condemned the earlier dominant ideas that every person lives in a separate word of
personal truths and lies, and reunited the world into a universal truth, that would
later transform into a united world of shared values propagated by Zeno’s stoics.
Almost a millennium later during another great crisis, “the fall of the city of Rome”,
Augustin of Hippo praised their ideas, claiming that the “cities created by men will
fall”, which is less important as long we keep the shared government of the good
among all men.
Pandemics have been attributed, by many contemporary scholars, with roles in
important episodes that triggered, shaped, challenged and crumbled the classical
world. However, the challengers of these theories, underline that pandemics’
impact, if significant, was certainly rivaled by other major factors, such as
migrations and demographic changes, and social and ideological transformations.
Despite the contested algorithms and factor analysis models, recent scholarship has
underlined the connection between the globalization process and its numerous side
effects in both antiquity and modernity. This paper approaches the global challenges
of the contemporary world through a comparative model with the antiquity and
searches for curious patterns of redefining the globality in times of crises.
Key words: pandemics, globalization, shared values, classical antiquity

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Political science
Divisions:	Faculty of Law
Depositing User:	PhD Ile Masalkovski
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2024 09:37
Last Modified:	30 Sep 2024 09:37
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/10239

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