| Description |
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 149 pages ; 19 cm.) |
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digital optical rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
| Series |
The great courses. Philosophy & intellectual history |
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Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
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| Note |
"Course no. 443" |
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Sixteen lectures (45 min. each) |
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Two parts set in two containers |
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Guidebook c1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (guidebook) |
| Contents |
pt. I: lecture 1. The Hindu vision of life -- lecture 2. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War -- lecture 3. Law and rule in Sophocles' Antigone -- lecture 4. Socrates and Socratic quest -- lecture 5. Plato: idealism and power, part 1 -- lecture 6. Plato: idealism and power, part 2 -- lecture 7. Aristotle's critique of Plato's Republic -- lecture 8. Machiavelli's theory of power politics -- pt. II: lecture 9. Rousseau's theory of human nature and society -- lecture 10. Marx's critique of capitalism and solution of communism -- lecture 11. Freud's theory of human nature and civilization --lecture 12. Thoreau's theory of civil disobedience -- lecture 13. Dostoevsky's Grand inquisitor -- lecture 14. The idea of anarchism and the example of Emma Goldman -- lecture 15. Hiltler's use of power -- lecture 16. Gandhi's use of power. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Professor Dennis Dalton, Barnard College |
| Summary |
Contrasts two conflicting factions -- Idealism and realism. |
| Audience |
Not rated |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1 |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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| Genre |
DVD-Video discs.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| Added Title |
Classical and modern political theory |
| ISBN |
9781565857414 |
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1565857410 |
| Music No. |
443 Teaching Company |
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