isonomia

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Thucydides speaks without hesitation of an "isonomic oligarchy," and later we find isonomia used by Plato quite deliberately in contrast to, rather than in vindication of, democracy.

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  1. Equality before the law; uniformity of rights. There is no part of our constitution so admirable as this equality of civil rights, this isonomia which the philosophers of ancient Greece only hoped to find in democratical government. Sir E. Creasy, Eng. Const., p. 200.

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  • What Enlightenment Project? access althusius anarchy ancient anticommons anti-rationalism aristotle athens author authority authorship backlink basileus bazaar bibliometria bobbio book brand capitalism capital_punishment cave censorship cephalus china christianity church code common_good commons communication community comunity condorcet contract cooperation copyleft copyright cosmopolitism creative_commons crito cupiditas deep_web democracy democrazia demokratia dialectics digitizing diritto_dautore diritto_di_resistenza donaldson droit_dauteur economics eidos eigenfactor elenchos elsevier england enlightenment equality eros eu faith family fede federalism fichte france freedom freedom_of_science freedom_of_the_press free_software free_speech friendship geistiges_eigentum geiz gender genius gms google_books governance grotious gscholar habermas h_index history hobbes hope hugo humanities human_rights humboldt hyperlink idea if impact_factor imperative individualism information innovation intellectual_property interactivity international internet ip iroby irony irrational isi islam isonomia isotes italia journal journals justice kant kateben kelsen kingdom_of_ends knowledge law left leibniz lessing liberalism liberty link literacy locke logoi logos logos_epitaphios long_tail love lutero luther lycophron majority manzoni mendelssohn metaphysics monograph monopoly moral_theory nachdruck nackdruck natural_law net network networks nomos obligation oligarchia oligarchy ontology open open_access open_science open_source opinion orality otane p2p paideia patents paul peace peer_review pericle permissive phaedrus philology pig pindar piracy plato platos_interpretation plos poetry politics politikos polloi print privacy privilege property protagora prussia public publication public_domain publicity publicness publishing radical_evil ragione rawls raymond reason religion reprint repubblica republic republique_des_lettres res research review roman-catholic scholarly scholarship scholary scholaship science scientometrics scirus serendipity serial_prices_crisis slavery social social_entrepreneurship socialism social-software society socrates sofistica soft_peer_review sokrates sokratikoi sophists sostanziale soul statesman technology thrasymachus thucydides totalitariansm trial trust tyranny uguaglianza uncertainty universalism university uno utilitarianism war web web_20 wikipedia wollner woman work wrongness CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Three 17th Century German Theorists of Federalism: Althusius, Hugo and Leibniz access althusius anarchy ancient anticommons anti-rationalism aristotle athens author authority authorship backlink basileus bazaar bibliometria bobbio book brand capitalism capital_punishment cave censorship cephalus china christianity church code common_good commons communication community comunity condorcet contract cooperation copyleft copyright cosmopolitism creative_commons crito cupiditas deep_web democracy democrazia demokratia dialectics digitizing diritto_dautore diritto_di_resistenza donaldson droit_dauteur economics eidos eigenfactor elenchos elsevier england enlightenment equality eros eu faith family fede federalism fichte france freedom freedom_of_science freedom_of_the_press free_software free_speech friendship geistiges_eigentum geiz gender genius gms google_books governance grotious gscholar habermas h_index history hobbes hope hugo humanities human_rights humboldt hyperlink idea if impact_factor imperative individualism information innovation intellectual_property interactivity international internet ip iroby irony irrational isi islam isonomia isotes italia journal journals justice kant kateben kelsen kingdom_of_ends knowledge law left leibniz lessing liberalism liberty link literacy locke logoi logos logos_epitaphios long_tail love lutero luther lycophron majority manzoni mendelssohn metaphysics monograph monopoly moral_theory nachdruck nackdruck natural_law net network networks nomos obligation oligarchia oligarchy ontology open open_access open_science open_source opinion orality otane p2p paideia patents paul peace peer_review pericle permissive phaedrus philology pig pindar piracy plato platos_interpretation plos poetry politics politikos polloi print privacy privilege property protagora prussia public publication public_domain publicity publicness publishing radical_evil ragione rawls raymond reason religion reprint repubblica republic republique_des_lettres res research review roman-catholic scholarly scholarship scholary scholaship science scientometrics scirus serendipity serial_prices_crisis slavery social social_entrepreneurship socialism social-software society socrates sofistica soft_peer_review sokrates sokratikoi sophists sostanziale soul statesman technology thrasymachus thucydides totalitariansm trial trust tyranny uguaglianza uncertainty universalism university uno utilitarianism war web web_20 wikipedia wollner woman work wrongness CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Thucydides speaks without hesitation of an "isonomic oligarchy," and later we find isonomia used by Plato quite deliberately in contrast to, rather than in vindication of, democracy. —  Mises Dailies
 

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  1. from Greek ἰσονομία, equality of rights: see isonomy.
 

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