Plato.
Summary: Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
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Place a hold to request this item.Dalton, Dennis.
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. The Hindu vision of life -- lecture 2. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian war -- lecture 3. Law and rule in Sophocle's Antigone -- lecture 4. Socrates and Socratic quest -- lecture 5. Plato--idealism and power, pt. 1 -- lecture 6. Plato--idealism and power, pt. 2 -- lecture 7. Aristotle's critique of Plato's Republic -- lecture 8. Machiavelli's Theory of power politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 POWGray, John
Summary: Turning his back on neoliberalism, voicing 'the end of history' and the unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray's was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised would lead to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious, but Gray has been trying to warn us for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 GRALevin, Yuval.
Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 194.1 MOOGindler, Gary
Summary: "The Left Imperialism is an exercise in a novel field: ideology archaeology. The book takes on a spectrum of ideologies from a brand-new evolutionary perspective. It presents a novel concept in political philosophy called the "individual-state paradigm," which generalizes and extrapolates the Right-Left distinction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paragon House 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Furrowed brows, widened eyes, clenched teeth-such signals reveal a great deal about our leaders, and they also influence our reactions to media images. This program investigates ways in which facial expressions and nonverbal communication determine political charisma and power. Presenting examples from a wide range of historical and current sources, the film shows how psychologists diagram and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: City planning that puts people before cars, sculptural museums that are as artistic as the masterpieces they contain, commercial spaces that redefine retail—these are some of the paradigm-shaking ideas of today’s architects at work. This compilation of recent NewsHour segments introduces viewers to Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Scully, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Judt, Tony
Summary: Offers a narrative of the United States' intellectual history of the past one hundred years by discussing the ideas and thinkers that helped shape the century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.092 JUDChomsky, Noam.
Summary: In this collection of essays and lectures from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHOSummary: The global financial crisis has called into question the viability of the American model of capitalism. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown the limits of American might. And the spending of the U.S. government has grown hazardously dependent on offshore investors. Is the era of American dominance over? That is the question in this Oxford Union-style debate as panelists make their case....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The life, personality, and thought of the 18th-century political philosopher and essayist are examined in this outstanding program. Emphasis is on Rousseau's critique of the inequities and shallowness of French society, and the new values system he developed which promoted individual rights and a return to nature. Rousseau's masterwork, The Social Contract, defined this philosophy and served as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program chronicles the life and work of John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist considered by many to be the first notable thinker of the Enlightenment. Without a doubt, Locke's legacy is vast: his articulation of empiricism laid the intellectual groundwork for an explosion of scientific activity that continues to this day, and his political philosophy is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Stewart, Matthew
Summary: "This is a story about a dangerous idea--one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement--the idea that all men are created equal. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 STESummary: Joseph Stalin's almost unfathomable crimes have given him the distinction of being a personification of evil in the 20th century, rivaling Adolf Hitler. This episode of Declassified examines how as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, Stalin was responsible for as many as 20 million Soviet deaths in his purges and infamous Gulag.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Who should lead the world's only superpower? When is it acceptable to topple another country's leader? Are personal freedom and national security mutually incompatible? The answers to urgent political questions such as these are informed by 23 centuries of discourse that started with The Republic. This program focuses successively on the pivotal ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In 1776, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, a treatise that would forever change our understanding of how work, value, and money are interrelated. This program details Smith's life and traces the impact of his work as Europe began the arduous transition from mercantilism to the laissez-faire philosophy of the Physiocrats. After Smith, labor was seen as the source of a country's wealth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Is it reasonable to expect the entire world to adopt democratic ways, or is it wrong to press other countries to embrace a system that-however beneficial it may, in theory, be-is completely at odds with their cultures and traditions? The motion under consideration in this Oxford Union-style debate is "Democracy isn't for everyone." Panelists in favor stress that true democracy is more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In the fullness of time, his failings have become obvious. Yet, even after the collapse of global Communism, Karl Marx stands undiminished as one of history’s most influential thinkers. This program chronicles Marx’s life and intellectual development, including the publication and impact of his major writings. Beginning with his birth and religiously confused childhood in Prussia, the video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program explores the fascinating story of Thomas Jefferson's admiration for Voltaire and how the French philosopher, steadfast advocate of political and religious freedom, influenced not only Jefferson but many of the other founding fathers. Striking parallels are observed between life at Voltaire's rural retreat at Ferney near Geneva and Jefferson's estate at Monticello. Narrated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Thomas More's Utopia, one of the most significant texts of English humanism, has become the ideal for a society based on fundamental human principles of fairness and justice. This program follows the progress of More's intellectual development, from his early friendship with the influential humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, to his rise to power as a member of Parliament and later Chancellor of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Berlin, Isaiah
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 192 BERSummary: Few literary works have inspired as diverse and impassioned opinions as Machiavelli's The Prince. While some have denounced it as epitomizing the immorality and cynicism of despotic political rulers, others have considered it a paragon of pragmatism and lucidity in political affairs-including Napoleon Bonaparte, who deemed The Prince the only book that deserved to be read. In this program, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Linguist, intellect, and activist Noam Chomsky discusses and reflects on the state of the world including the War in Iraq, September 11th, the War on Terror, media manipulation and control, social activism, fear, American foreign policy, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005