Struktura semestru:

Úvod do problematiky a rané tematizace demokracie

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Thúkydidés II, 35-46 (Periklova řeč nad padlými)

Thúkydidés III, 37-41

Solón W36 (Gagarin 27-28)

2.

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Platón

3.

Platón, Ústava, 555b-562a

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(ps.) Xenofón, Ústava Athéňanů, I.1-12; II.17-20

Finley, Democracy ancient and modern, kap. 2

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5.

Platón, Ústava, 471c-497a

Sharples, R. (1994). Plato on Democracy and Expertise. Greece and Rome, 41(1), 49-56.

Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Athens on Trial. The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought, kapitola „Democracy and the Philosophers“

Aristotelés

6.

Aristotelés, Politika III.11, VI, 1-2 a VI,5

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Řím

7.

Cicero, Pro Sestio 96-135

Plútarchos, Životy bratří Gracchů

Nicola Mackie, “Popularis ideology and popular politics at Rome in the first century B. C.”, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 135, 1992, 49-73.

Claudia Tiersch, “Political Communication in the Late Roman Republic. Semantic Battles between Optimates and Populares?”, in H. van der Blom et al. (ed.), Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome. Speech, Audience and Decision, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 35-68.

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Colleen J. Shogan (2007) Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency

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Rosanvallon, P. (2008). Counter-democracy : Politics in an age of distrust. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, část 3 a kap. 12.

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