The Moral Foundations of Politics - Video
Ian ShapiroThis course explores main answers to the question "when do governments deserve our allegiance?" It starts with a survey of major political theories of the Enlightenment—Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition—through classical formulations, historical context, and contemporary debates relating to politics today. It then turns to the rejection of Enlightenment political thinking.... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 25 | Founded | 15 years ago |
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Professor Shapiro guides the class through some practical applications of his theory of democratic justice. As applied to governing children, a sphere in which power-based hierarchy is inevitable, he circumscribes the role of the state as the fiducia... more
Professor Shapiro takes up again Schumpeter's minimalist conception of democracy. When operationalized as a two turnover test, this conception of democracy proves far from minimalist, yet people often expect other things from democracy, like deliveri... more
Majority rule and democratic competition serve as the focus of this, second lecture on the democratic tradition. What is it about majority rule that confers legitimacy on collective decisions? Is there any validity to a utilitarian justification, tha... more
Professor Shapiro transitions today to the third and final section of the course, an in-depth look at democracy and its institutions. According to him, democracy is the most successful at delivering on the mature Enlightenment's twin promises to reco... more
The final Enlightenment tradition left to be explored in this course is social contract theory, for which we must return to Locke and somehow secularize his views and reconcile them with the refutation of natural rights. Modern social contract theori... more
We previously established that the reality of scarcity invalidates Marx's core idea of superabundance, and mortally wounds his theory. Certainly, his historical predictions about worker-led socialist revolutions around the world were off-mark. Today,... more
Today, Professor Shapiro continues his discussion of Enlightenment theory of Karl Marx, focusing on the foundations of his theory of capitalism. The central question is, how is wealth created under capitalism at the micro level? For Marx, Adam Smith'... more
Exploitation is an important technical--not normative--concept in the theory of Karl Marx. Although we are dealing with voluntary Pareto transactions, under capitalism, exploitation occurs whether or not an individual is better off. Capitalism is des... more
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- Fantastic
Great course on what underlies our political structures and dogmas.
Apple Podcasts5Jessehk
United States12 years ago - Great!
A deep introduction to politics.
Apple Podcasts5CascaDt
Brazil14 years ago - Irisha
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Apple Podcasts4Pafnysha
Russia15 years ago - Awesome lectures for people interested in Philosophy
Awesome, everyone interested in Law, Politics and Philosophy should listen to them, audio quality fantastic, by the way.
I am a listener of this series after visiting Ethics and Politics in Oxford which I found surprisingly non inspiring and vague. The aspect that I was more impressed with was the connection with facts, analysis and brainstorm for laying down concepts of major philosophical importance. Good for Law students too.
Apple Podcasts5Drajefferson
United Kingdom15 years ago - Activating and stimulating my thought process
I have graduated college almost 4 yrs ago and these lectures really got me thinking outside the box. I enjoyed re-learning these basic political theories!
Apple Podcasts5HthedUnited States15 years ago - A little understanding goes a long way.
I think that everyone with the right to vote should listen to these lectures.
If we wish to get people involved, or at least understand the system or choices by which they are governed I think this should be simplified and taught in all schools (11-18).
Thank you for this, it has made me think again and realise just how malleable my mind is even at 45.
Apple Podcasts5leslie hardingUnited Kingdom15 years ago - So far so good!
As of today, I have listened to the first two lectures. I find the lectures to be engaging and thought-provoking. I look forward to seeing the whole lecture series in the weeks to come.
Apple Podcasts5bunnylasvegasUnited States15 years ago
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