Western society sees itself as an inheritor of the Classicism in Greece and the Roman Empire. We see this in the corinthian columns on the steps that lead into the courthouse, in the stems of the words we use to label our plants, in the theater plays we go watch and in what we pride ourselves with. Demos means people, kratos is power. Democracy is power to the people.
In Plato’s Symposium there is described a myth of love, gender and soulmates. Aristophanes tells a story of the primordial human…
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