From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 16:39:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F2237B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-m03.mx.aol.com (imo-m03.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B631B43F75 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JamesLyle77@aol.com) Received: from JamesLyle77@aol.com by imo-m03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36.3.) id n.32.39993b9b (25711) for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:39:24 -0400 (EDT) From: JamesLyle77@aol.com Message-ID: <32.39993b9b.2c112eab@aol.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:39:23 EDT To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10633 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: eudaemonia as a state of happiness requiring a daemon server spirit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:39:39 -0000 what are the classical antecedants of this? they have been compared to guardian angels. one of the earliest of such is the guardian angel protectecting the people of the treaty, michael who bars balem from going to place wheere he will be paid to place a curse on them. angels were presented as servant spirits who guarded man and then their was the genie of alladi's lamp type. one pohilosopher, speaking tohte country club, the harvard types of the day, stated that eudamonia is happiness is security, security for onself, one's friend's, and all the descendants of these as far into the future as can be forseen. This is best guarrranteed by democracy he states. sparta outlasted all the other classsical greek city states because it had a dual chief executiveship: in its case dual kings who ruled on alternate years. each in his year of service would consult with the other be cause he would have had an aversion to being reversed next year by the other. ther cherokees had dual cheif executives in the form of a peace cheir, who could be a man of a woman, and a war cheif who had to be a man. the chrokees, of the cherokee-iroquois langage group, were the only amerindain tribe to invent on their own a written alphabet, build baptist churches, grist mills, north european style log cabins, european farm animals and a european life style.