conquest

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If Pericles’ funeral oration is a landmark of democratic virtue, the amoral facts of pure force become explicit in the “Melian dialogue” following the Athenian conquest of the neutral island of Melos in 415 B.C.:

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Despite his imperiousness, at his best Wittgenstein was more concerned with the integrity of the intellectual quest than the glory of philosophical conquest.

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After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico’s European overlords used its silver and its agricultural wealth to nourish their global enterprises.

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This Winthropism, for the next two centuries, would be used as justification for “Western conquest of Native Americans, enslavement of Africans, and colonization of everyone else.”

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Russia’s army is on the verge of its biggest Ukrainian conquest in more than two years.

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