We’re thrilled to announce that our ninth course is ready for viewing or download by members: “Freedom’s Progress: The History of Political Thought, Part I,” by Professor Gerard Casey of University College, Dublin. Check out the topics below! (For our other courses, click here.)
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Now for the course topics:
Pre-and Early History
In the Beginning
Gardens of Eden
Some Early Civilisations
The Emergence of the Ruling Class
What a Piece of Work is Man
Sophists
The Sophists and the Polis
The Sophists on Law and Nature
Plato
The Republic (1)
The Republic (2)
Statesman and Laws
Aristotle
Polis and Slavery
Chrematistics, Economics and Politics
Politics
Slavery
Slavery—Natural or Conventional?
Slavery—Stoic, Jewish and Christian Views
Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
Epicureanism, Scepticism and Stoicism
Cicero
Seneca and the Roman Lawyers
Christianity
Scriptural Interpretation and Samuel
Romans 13 et al.
Augustine
City of God, City of the Earth
The State as Thieftaker
Augustine—Realpolitik
Early Medieval Thought
After Rome
Slavery, Authority and Justice
The Universities and the Cities
Feudalism and the Law
Kingship and John of Salisbury
Thomas Aquinas
Law
Sources of Political Authority
Sacred and Secular, Tyranny (and an aside on Sir John Fortescue)
Slavery, Property, Usury and Heresy
Marsilius of Padua
Intimations of Modernity
The Defender of the Peace
Valentior Pars
Machiavelli
Christian? Aristotelian?
Machiavellian?
Medieval Economics
Money and Usury
Utility, Value and Price
The Reformation
Wycliffe & Luther
Luther; Radical Reformers
Calvin