Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Political Philosophy

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, Marx, Mill, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick to elucidate the thinking that underpins the West’s conceptions of good and bad government. Commentary by Ronald Dworkin, of New York University, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, of Princeton University, is featured. (46 minutes)

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Item#: BVL32716
Copyright date: ©2004
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-1509-6

Part of the Series : Great Ideas of Philosophy II


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