@spendius,
Quote:"We should also spend more funds to get our young people out of the library where they're reading Thucydides and get them to start living like Herodotus — going out and seeing the world
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Quote:"The State that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
Quote:Thucydides attributes the existence of the divine entirely to the needs of political life. The gods are seen as existing only in the minds of men. Religion as such reveals itself in the History to be not simply one type of social behaviour among others, but what permeates the whole of social existence, permitting the emergence of justice
Quote:Herodotus
Typically, he passes no definitive judgment on what he has heard. In the case of conflicting or unlikely accounts, he presents both sides, says what he believes and then invites readers to decide for themselves
That was actually an interesting read, the two quotes at the beginning of this post, I admire.
This is what differentuates people's thoughts, and it's been going on for 100's of years, so Thucydides based his thoughts on politics, refused to bring anything to the table of people's beliefs and possible came from wealth, thereby, had some form of power mentally and motivation but would not bring in the things that he loved doing, or believed in.
Where as, Herodotus refused to judge, or make claims, rather allowed people to read his writing and come to their own conculsions. He was not a book worm, rather learnt from experience, getting out there. Thucydides was a book worm and used science and politics to draw his conclusions.
Given that all I have ever learnt has been from experience, not practical I guess I get Herodotus... And, I feel Thucydides hid behind papers, books, trying to make everything factual. There is nothing wrong with "experience" that over rules in my opinion any written word.
