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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which Pericles, Muhammad and Krishna revealed what was expected of us in the way of individual obligations. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of obligation are generally considered to be found in his funeral oration. Its necessary to "read between the lines" to develop an idea of his opinions on the subject. Pericles
was giving the speech to honor the Athenian soldiers who had fallen in the Peloponnesian War; but he began by speaking of the fathers and ancestors of all the Athenians,
who had always inhabited the land, handed it down from generation to generation, which made it possible for the present Athenians to live in a free state (Pericles funeral oration,
1998). He praises the ancestors for what theyve done, and then relates the principles by which Athens rose to power (Pericles funeral oration, 1998). He first talks of the government,
which is a democracy; administered by "the hands of the many" (Pericles funeral oration, 1998). He goes on to say that there is "no exclusiveness in our public life, and
in our private business we are not suspicious of one another (Pericles funeral oration, 1998). Although the Athenians are "unconstrained in our private business" in public "we are prevented from
doing wrong by respect for the authorities and for the laws, having a particular regard to those which are ordained for the protection of the injured as well as those
unwritten laws which bring upon the transgressor of them the reprobation of the general sentiment" (Pericles; funeral oration, 1998). In these words we can see some of Pericles opinion of
individual obligation: the Athenians were to take an active part in their government; respect the laws; and obey them in both the letter and spirit. They were to do these
things as a way to honor their ancestors from whom all they had is derived. For Pericles, then, individual obligation is bound closely with duty to the state. Muhammad The
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