10 In the midst of the debate about freedom, it's tempting to revisit the 5th century BC, during the great democratic revolution. War has empowered the demos And dialogue is a new strategy for reaching agreements. Power can no longer be limited to imposing reality. More equitable understandings are needed. Power is redistributed, society is rebalanced. Thus begins the great Sophist debate: the preeminence of Physis (natural law) or the Nomos (human law).

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