Power over people : classical and modern political theory Part I

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Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory Lecture One The Hindu Vision of Life Outline Lecture Two Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War Outline Pericles’ “Funeral Oration on the Ideals of Athen The Revolution (or Civil War) in Corcyra(from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War): Fact Sheet on Ancient Greece in Plato’s Era\(F Lecture Three Law and Rule in Sophocles’ Antigone Outline Lecture Four Socrates and the Socratic Quest Outline Lecture Five Plato: Idealism and Power, Part I Outline Lecture Six Plato: Idealism and Power, Part II Outline Philosophical Background to Plato’s Republic: K Plato’s Republic Plato’s Ideal of Non-Injury Plato’s Style in The Republic Plato’s Three Cities Three Forms of Leadership and Types of Rulein P Rule of Reason Rule of Desire Rule of Spirit Lecture Seven Aristotle’s Critique of Plato’s Republic Outline Aristotle \(384–322 b.c.\) Aristotle’s Critique of Plato:Argument for the   Lecture Eight Machiavelli’s Theory of Power Politics Outline Machiavelli \(1469–1527\) Forces of Change in Early Modern Europe \(c. 145 Italy, Florence, and Machiavelli Two General Comments on Italy of This Period Comparisons and Contrasts BetweenMachiavelli and Plato Credits Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory Lecture Nine Rousseau’s Theory of Human Nature and Society Outline Jean-Jacques Rousseau \(1712–1778\) Rousseau’s Three Visions of the Individual in Soc The State of Nature \(pp. 35–36, 45–46, 53–55, 6 Rousseau’s Modern State \(pp. 35–36, 53-55, 68, The Civil State \(pp. 147–56, 160–65, 203–4\) Summary: Three Perspectives on Political Theory Realists and the Argument for Security (e.g., Machiavelli) Reformers and the Argument for Diversity (e.g., Aristotle) Idealists and the Argument for Community (e.g., Plato and Rousseau) Lecture Ten Marx’s Critique of Capitalism and the Solution Outline Marx’s Theory of Human Nature and Society\(Sel Marx’s Economic Determinism Lecture Eleven Freud’s Theory of Human Nature and Civilization Outline Freud’s Theory Comparisons and Contrasts Between Marx And Freud Lecture Twelve Thoreau’s Theory of Civil Disobedience Outline Thoreau: Civil Disobedience Against The State Lecture Thirteen Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor Outline Fyodor Dostoevsky Lecture Fourteen The Idea of Anarchism and the Example of Emma Goldman Outline Five Principles of Anarchism 5.Means-end relationship: what goes around comes around. The major debate among anarchists is over the issue of violent or nonviolent methods of change. For Michael Bakunin, violence is essential, while for Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi, nonviolence repre Emma Goldman’s Theory Lecture Fifteen Hitler’s Use of Power Outline Analysis of Hitler’s Ideology Lecture Sixteen Gandhi’s Use of Power Outline Exclusiveness and Inclusiveness in the Ideas of Hitler and Gandhi Stages in the Development of M. K. (Mahatma) Gandhi as a Leader Gandhi’s Political Theory: Five Concepts Swaraj Satya and Ahimsa Satyagraha Sarvodaya Recommended Political Theory Texts