Politics
Video Lectures - Power over People - Classical and Modern Political Theory
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2004, 16pp, 1st ed.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, Gandhi - in 16 in-depth lectures, Professor Dennis Dalton puts the key theories of power formulated by several of history's greatest minds within your reach.
Dr. Dalton traces two distinct schools of political theory, idealism and realism, from their roots in ancient India and Greece through history and, ultimately, to their impact on the 20th century—via the lives and ideas of two charismatic, yet utterly disparate, leaders: Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi.
Dr. Dalton traces two distinct schools of political theory, idealism and realism, from their roots in ancient India and Greece through history and, ultimately, to their impact on the 20th century—via the lives and ideas of two charismatic, yet utterly disparate, leaders: Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi.
Table of contents
| 1. | The Hindu Vision of Life |
| 2. | Thucydides and The Peloponnesian War |
| 3. | Law and Rule in Sophocles’s Antigone |
| 4. | Socrates and the Socratic Quest |
| 5. | Plato—Idealism and Power, Part I |
| 6. | Plato—Idealism and Power, Part II |
| 7. | Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Republic |
| 8. | Machiavelli’s Theory of Power Politics |
| 9. | Rousseau’s Theory of Human Nature and Society |
| 10. | Marx’s Critique of Capitalism and Solution of Communism |
| 11. | Freud’s Theory of Human Nature and Civilization |
| 12. | Thoreau’s Theory of Civil Disobedience |
| 13. | Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor |
| 14. | The Idea of Anarchism and the Example of Emma Goldman |
| 15. | Hitler’s Use of Power |
| 16. | Gandhi's Use of Power |