Great Books Ep 90. Euripides - The Phoenician Maidens. Equality is Man’s Natural Law
Inequality is not biologically predetermined but culturally constructed, and we can always work towards a just and equitable society without preconceived notions of who should be what.
“prize equality that ever linketh friend to friend, city to city, and allies to each other; for equality is man’s natural law”
~ ‘The Phoenician Maidens’ by Euripides (Edward P. Coleridge translation. GB5 - p. 382)
Brief Summary
The play opens with a monologue from Jocasta, in front of the royal palace in Thebes, setting …
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