DAY 16
History of the Peloponnesian War
Ἱστορίαι (Historiai)
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Faced with fear, honor, and self-interest, how rational and reasonable can human choices truly be?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Reading the record of the historian Thucydides, I get gooseflesh at how exactly the Athens and Sparta of thousands of years ago resemble us now. He traced the causes of war not to the will of the gods or to chance, but to the fear and selfishness lodged within human nature. This cold record, showing how the strong trample the weak and how arrogance leads itself to ruin, is the sharpest of mirrors held up to the blind spots of humankind.
— ONGO · Curator
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"강자는 할 수 있는 것을 하고, 약자는 겪어야만 하는 것을 겪는다."
🌱Apply It Today
Calmly revisit a recent conflict, large or small, between you and someone else, and write honestly about whether a hidden fear or fragile pride was at work beneath it.
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