Sayings of Spartan women
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Sayings of Spartan women
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#2...and then there's Schopenhauer: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/483552-the-cheapest-sort-of...
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#4Hm, all most all of them are horrible. It's so impressive to me that we still proclaim Sparta as something worthwhile of praise when it was an awful inhumane culture and society that didn't even last that long.
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#5Hm, all most all of them are horrible. It's so impressive to me that we still proclaim Sparta as something worthwhile of praise when it was an awful inhumane culture and society that didn't even last that long.
Aside from Sports (where competition is the whole point outside of the Ivy League), Sparta is always portrayed as cruel and inhumane, deservedly so. On the other hand, they were, apparently, good at waging war one way or another.
I've not seen it associated with philosophy and civilization as Athens was, among others.
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#6An awful lot of those sayings are extolling "willingness to commit violence" as a virtue. That's not the sort of society I think we should emulate.
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#7On the topic of Spartan societey in general, a really good read is https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/ by Dr. Bret Deveraux.
Long read but well worth it for interested people.
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#8Hm, all most all of them are horrible. It's so impressive to me that we still proclaim Sparta as something worthwhile of praise when it was an awful inhumane culture and society that didn't even last that long.
The Spartans are the OG practitioners of Master Morality, as Nietsche would put it. That which is good is that which is useful, that which is bad is that which is harmful. Cowardice and the like are harmful, therefore they are bad.
This is in contrast with the reigning slave morality of our times.
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#9Hm, all most all of them are horrible. It's so impressive to me that we still proclaim Sparta as something worthwhile of praise when it was an awful inhumane culture and society that didn't even last that long.
Aside from Sports (where competition is the whole point outside of the Ivy League), Sparta is always portrayed as cruel and inhumane, deservedly so. On the other hand, they were, apparently, good at waging war one way or another. I've not seen it associated with philosophy and civilization as Athens was, among others.
According to Deveraux (article series linked in another comment) they weren't even good at that!
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#10> Being asked by a woman from Attica, "Why is it that you Spartan women are the only women that lord it over your men," she said, "Because we are the only women that are mothers of men."