Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making

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Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making

Author	: Ilias Kouskouvelis
File Size	: 55,9 Mb
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 05 November 2018
ISBN	: 9781498567404
Pages	: 252 pages

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Thucydides on Choice and Decision Making by Ilias Kouskouvelis Book PDF Summary

This book uncovers Thucydides’ decision making schemata and his thinking on how people decide, particularly when in power or war. Based on these ideas, the author interprets the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war and the Sicilian expedition, and shows that they were a result of decision making and, thus, not inevitable.

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