Power over people : classical and modern political theory.
A series of sixteen lectures on political theory that examine some of the fundamental questions that have shaped Western political thought since its inception in Athens in fifth century B.C., together with some of the most influential answers that political theorists have proposed. The issues fall...
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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company,
[2001]
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| Series: | Great courses on tape (Videorecording)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The Hindu vision of life.
- Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.
- Law and rule in Sophocles' Antigone.
- Socrates and the Socratic quest
- Plato : idealism and power, part 1.
- Plato : idealism and power, part 2.
- Aristotle's critique of Plato's Republic.
- Machiavelli's theory of power politics
- pt. II. Rousseau's theory of human nature and society.
- Marx's critique of capitalism and solution of communism.
- Freud's theory of human nature and civilization.
- Thoreau's theory of civil disobedience
- Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor.
- The idea of anarchism and the example of Emma Goldman.
- Hitler's use of power.
- Gandhi's use of power.