By H.-P. Stahl
Stahl's vintage e-book on Thucydides is without doubt one of the so much profound and broadly revered smooth reviews of the Athenian historian. released in German in 1966 as Thukydides: Die Stellung des Menschen im geschichtlichen Prozess, it has, in the past, no longer been on hand in English. For this new version, the unique has been revised and enlarged via chapters which replicate the author's next paintings. Stahl's success is, first, to loose Thucydides from the nationalist limits which smooth interpreters imposed, then to illustrate the process wherein Thucydides constructs his paintings as an interaction, utilizing narrative to touch upon the speeches of politicians, to verify or, extra frequently, to refute his audio system' research. the writer is Mellon Professor of Classics on the college of Pittsburgh.
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G. Schmid 1948, 30 ff; 'People must know that they live under changeable fates' (32); war is something one ought 'to seek to avoid by negotiating beforehand' (34; cf. 117); 'He is to be praised who does not abuse his superior power' (34); cf. his remarks on the 'instructive value' {Lehrwert) of the work in the strict sense (40-1): the 'insight into the world of the past protects the historian as well as the politician against unfounded toying with possibilities' (quotations translated from the German).
On the other hand, if we set aside the idea of an a priori known or set goal, we regain the opportunity to a$k questions about the factors that influence the course of events and about the position of man in relation to these factors. In other words, in what is often taken for granted in modern thought, we can discover what was problematic for the ancient author. Still, one assumption must be made based upon our overview. We must in each case acknowledge the historian's subjective honesty in ascertaining and presenting the facts.
Thus the literary intention of this passage precludes any search for historical data. However, critics have made numerous statements which simply do not Chapter 1 do justice to this chapter. 2 not only from the passive perspective of those affected, but also considers it under the double aspects of both the external causes and those originating in man himself. It will be well to keep this characterization of the war in mind as we turn to its prelude and the optimistic plans of some of its advocates.