Name/Title
The Big Questions of Philosophy Professor David Kyle Johnson, King's College Lawrence CahooneDescription
disc 1.Origins and conflicts of modern politics ;Ancient republics, empires, fiefdoms ;Machiavelli's new order ;Hobbes, natural law, the social contract ;Locke on limited government and toleration ;Rousseau's republican community --disc 2.Kant's ethics of duty and natural rights ;Smith and the market revolution ;Montesquieu and the American founding ;Debating the French Revolution ;Legacies of the revolution, right to left ;Nationalism and a people's war --disc 3.Civil society, Constant, Hegel, Tocqueville ;Mill on liberty and utility ;Marx's critique of capitalism ;Modern vs. traditional society ;Progressivism and new liberalism ;Fleeing liberalism, varieties of socialism --disc 4.Fleeing liberalism, fascism and Carl Schmitt ;Totalitarianism and total war ;Conservative or neoliberal, Oakeshott, Hayek ;Reviving the public realm, Hannah Arendt ;Philosophy vs. politics, Strauss and friends ;Marcuse and the new left --disc 5.Rawls's A theory of justice ;Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, libertarianism ;What about community? ;Walzer on everything money shouldn't buy ;Identity politics, feminism ;Identity politics, multiculturalism --disc 6.The politics of nature, environmentalism ;Postmodernism, truth, and power ;Habermas, democracy as communication ;The end of history? Clash of civilizations? ;Just wars? The problem of dirty hands ;Why political philosophy matters.
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) :DVD video, sound, color ;4 3/4 in. +1 course guidebook (vi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)Publication Details
Publication Type
DVDDate Published
2014Publication Subjects
Political science--Philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01061071
Political science--Philosophy.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01069819Call No.
Video Big