What is good for a country? What is the national interest? - Moses I. Finley

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What is good for a country? What is the national interest?

Moses I. Finley

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About Moses I. Finley

Sir Moses I. Finley CBE FBA (May 20, 1912 – June 23, 1986) was an American and English classical scholar.

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Birth Name: Moses Israel Finkelstein

Native Name: Moses Finley

Alternative Names: Sir Moses Israel Finley

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Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

The Athenians made mistakes. Which governmental system has not? The familiar game of condemning Athens for not having lived to some ideal of perfection is a stultifying approach.

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.