Sep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 9 segments
In this episode, Dan discusses what the Ancient Greeks thought about human liberty. https://takeultra.com/
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And because we have this idea of American and transatlantic continental or transatlantic chattel slavery.
But a slave is a man who lived under another man's will, essentially, right? Whatever latitude he had came from his owner and could be taken back without notice and without any reason given.
Roman Liberty ran on a set of specific mechanisms rather than on just an attitude.
The first of these pieces of hardware is called provocatio, excuse me, like provocation, right? The right of appeal.
A magistrate moves to have you flogged or executed by his own authority and you say the word and the matter goes to the assembly.
So it's basically like I demand a trial or whatever, right? One citizen standing on the street can stop a man with lictors and an axe by invoking a procedure.
The honest version, for a long stretch, this ran on shame rather than on penalty.
And it did not touch a commander's authority in the field until portion laws extended to soldiers and provincials around 199 BC.
50 140 years or so before the death of julius caesar so the principle arrived well before the enforcement did actually which is how a lot of these things go especially in rome they like to think a lot so The second was the tribunate.
Ten men elected by the plebs, protected by a collective oath that made any man who laid hands on one of them fair game for the plebs to kill.
And because we have this idea of American and transatlantic continental or transatlantic chattel slavery.
But a slave is a man who lived under another man's will, essentially, right? Whatever latitude he had came from his owner and could be taken back without notice and without any reason given.
Roman Liberty ran on a set of specific mechanisms rather than on just an attitude.
The first of these pieces of hardware is called provocatio, excuse me, like provocation, right? The right of appeal.
A magistrate moves to have you flogged or executed by his own authority and you say the word and the matter goes to the assembly.
So it's basically like I demand a trial or whatever, right? One citizen standing on the street can stop a man with lictors and an axe by invoking a procedure.
The honest version, for a long stretch, this ran on shame rather than on penalty.
And it did not touch a commander's authority in the field until portion laws extended to soldiers and provincials around 199 BC.
50 140 years or so before the death of julius caesar so the principle arrived well before the enforcement did actually which is how a lot of these things go especially in rome they like to think a lot so The second was the tribunate.
Ten men elected by the plebs, protected by a collective oath that made any man who laid hands on one of them fair game for the plebs to kill.
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