What exactly is liberty? Where do your rights begin… and end? How is a democracy supposed to work? While the terms and concepts of political philosophy are ingrained in our global consciousness, we often – whether we realize it or not – have an incomplete picture of how those ideas developed, or their intentions and implications. The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas is your opportunity to navigate the labyrinth of Western political and social theory. Guided by award-winning Professor Cahoone, these 36 eye-opening lectures reveal how political philosophers created virtual blueprints of action for leaders to implement – for good or ill. YouÍll gain not only the tools necessary to comprehend and evaluate the omnipresent language of politics, but also a thorough understanding of the wellspring of thought that has emerged over centuries of political philosophy. Offering impressive breadth and depth, The Modern Political Tradition has a scope youÍre unlikely to find in a traditional university course. Here, youÍll consider a range of fascinating topics such as fundamental notions of freedom and rights, moral realism versus moral relativism, the dangers and advantages of the free-market model of economics, questions of distributive justice and the welfare state, the ñjust warî theory (which is currently being tested by the war on terror), and the inequality of a policy of ñcolor blindness.î In every lecture, youÍll meet revolutionary figures who have left an indelible mark on history and, in many cases, continue to influence political debate. After completing The Modern Political Tradition, politics will come into focus like never before.

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What is reality? Ask yourself whether you can actually know the answer, much less be sure that you can know it, and you’ve begun to grapple with the metaphysical and epistemological quandaries that have occupied, teased, and tormented modern philosophy’s greatest intellects since the dawn of modern science and a century before the Enlightenment.

These 36 lectures are the perfect introduction to the basics of modern and contemporary Western approaches to the philosophies of both reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), right through the end of the 20th century. Led by Professor Cahoone, you’ll partake in an engaging intellectual journey that encompasses prominent figures from all the major traditions of Western philosophy.

You’ll explore the ideas behind modern philosophy’s most important movements, including dualism, rationalism, empiricism, idealism, existentialism, and postmodernism. You’ll plunge into the thought of some of philosophy’s most important thinkers, including Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Peirce, Nietzsche, James, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Rorty, and Derrida, learning how many of them were in fact considered radicals, their views appreciated far less in their own era than in later ones.

And you’ll gain a clear sense of how each of these movements and thinkers fits into philosophy’s broader progression, often pushing philosophy in dramatically new directions right up to the present day, as well as how philosophy is intimately related to a multitude of other disciplines.

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• Full Audio MP3 Program
• Full PDF E-Book Included
• Listening Length: 18 hours and 46 minutes
• Author: Lawrence Cahoone, The Great Courses
• Narrator: Lawrence Cahoone
• Audible.com Release Date: July 08, 2013
• Publisher: The Great Courses
• Program Type: Audiobook
• Version: Original recording
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00DTO5BTO

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