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(August 21) Lecture / Discussion Page - The Study of Politics and Human Nature
Readings1. Instructions for the August 21, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] The Study of Politics and Human Nature 4. Journal Article Reading: Scientists Probe Human Nature -- and Discover We Are Good, After All - Ward 5. Video Presentation: Understanding Human Nature with Steven Pinker 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation The Study of Politics and Human Nature [PowerPoint Presentation] Who's Correct About Human Nature, the Left or the Right? - Rooksby What Are We Like? 10 Psychology Findings That Reveal The Worst Of Human Nature - Jarrett Hobbes vs Rousseau: Are We Inherently Evil? - Douglass The Myth of Human Progress - Hedges Human-Made Evolution - Hunziker
(August 28) Lecture / Discussion Page - Understanding and Critically Analyzing Politics and Buddhism
Readings1. Instructions for the August 28, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Understanding and Critically Analyzing Political Theory and Buddhism 4. Journal Article Reading: Is "Social Science" an Oxymoron? Will That Ever Change? - Horgan 5. Video Presentation: The Lottery of Birth 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Analyzing Political Theory and Buddhism [PowerPoint Presentation] Philosophy of Social Science - Fay Thomas Kuhn: The Man Who Changed the Way the World Looked at Science - Naughton What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" - Horgan How Reliable Are the Social Sciences? - Gutting The Political Compass
Readings1. Instructions for the September 11, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part I: Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero 4. Journal Article Reading: Notion of Elite Guardian Class Dates Back to Founding of US - Chomsky 5. Video Presentation: What is Democracy? 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part 1 [PowerPoint Presentation] War and Power in Classical Greece: Lessons for Superpowers and the World - Vallianatos The Shaping of American Character - Robbins The Coming Collapse of the American Economic System - Hedges and Wolff The Kavanaugh Battle, Viewed from Rome- Weigel Philosophy: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle - Khan Academy
Readings1. Instructions for the September 18, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part II: God, the Bible, Augustine, and Aquinas 4. Journal Article Reading: More Public Schools Are Embracing the Bible. Is It literature, or Religion? - Sheasley and Jonsson 5. Video Presentation: Waiting for Armageddon 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Our Pre-Modern Heritage - Part 2 [PowerPoint Presentation] Why Thomas Aquinas Stands The Test Of Time - Chalk Down the Memory Hole: Living in Trump's United States of Amnesia - Gordon Resist the Lure of Theological Politics - Hamid Fake News? Or Fake Faith? - Alberts Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right
(September 25) Lecture / Discussion Page - Liberalism and Kant
Readings1. Instructions for the September 25, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Liberalism and Kant 4. Journal Article Reading: Lazy Liberals and "the Trump Effect" - Street 5. Video Presentation: Surviving Progress 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Liberalism and Kant [PowerPoint Presentation] Immanuel Kant on Our Duty to Obey Government - Smith Great Thinkers: Immanuel Kant Liberalism's Failures in a Time of Increasing Violence, Racism, Inequality and State Terrorism - Poulin The Liberal Apologies for Obama's Ugly Reign - Street The Inadequacies of Liberalism - Martin and Pimentel
(October 2) Lecture / Discussion Page - Conservatism and Islam
Readings1. Instructions for the October 2, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Conservatism and Islam 4. Journal Article Reading: The West's Moral Panic Behind The Threat Of Radical Islam - Burchill 5. Video Presentation: What's the Matter with Kansas? 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Conservatism and Islam [PowerPoint Presentation] The Essence of Conservatism - Kirk What Americans Mean When They Say They're Conservative: Freidersdorf Understanding the Complexity of Islamism - Venturini Rationalism in Politics - Oakeshott The Eternal Return of Compassionate Conservatism - Teles
(October 9) Lecture / Discussion Page - Marxism
Readings1. Instructions for the October 9, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Marxism 4. Journal Article Reading: Why Socialism? - Einstein 5. Video Presentation: Marx Reloaded 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Marxism [PowerPoint Presentation] Marxism Basics - Socialist Revolution COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism - Foster and Suwandi Understanding Marxism and Socialism with Richard Wolff Kshama Sawant on Malala Yousefzai - Democracy Now The Not-So-Small Voice of American Socialism - Hirthler
(October 16) Lecture / Discussion Page - Darwinian Theories and Western Political Thought
Readings1. Instructions for the October 16, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Darwinian Theories and Western Political Thought 4. Journal Article Reading: Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought - Mayr 5. Video Presentation: Human Zoos: America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Darwin and Western Political Thought [PowerPoint Presentation] Darwin's Living Legacy - Garcia, Jr. The Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution: An Interview With Chris Stringer - Ritch-Frel Meet the Woman Who Decided to Take on Darwin's Sexist Scientific Theories - Saini Defending Darwin - Dougherty Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Documentary
(October 23) Lecture / Discussion Page - Political Parties and Sartre
Readings1. Instructions for the October 23, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Political Parties and Sartre 4. Journal Article Reading: Think Big, Be Free, Have Sex! 10 Reasons to Be an Existentialist - Bakewell 5. Video Presentation: Sartre: Leading an Authentic Life 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Political Parties and Sartre [PowerPoint Presentation] The Political Compass (Find Out Where You Are!) Humanism - Helping People - Haught Jean Paul Sartre: Existentialism The Transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties - Against the Grain In An Age of Hollow Men and Existential Angst, Re-read Sartre - Escobar Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy -- The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA - DeGraw
(October 30) Lecture / Discussion Page - Interest Groups and Freud
Readings1. Instructions for the October 30, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Interest Groups and Freud 4. Journal Article Reading: Sigmund Freud: Biography, Theories And Contribution To Psychology 5. Video Presentation: The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines" 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Interest Groups and Freud [PowerPoint Presentation] How 7 Historic Figures Overcame Depression Without Doctors - Levine Interest Groups: Pathways to Participation and Influence - Lumen Interest Groups and Theories of Power in America - McFarland The Freud-Einstein Correspondence of 1932: Theories of War - MacQueen Finding the Lost Voters - Sifry
(November 6) Lecture / Discussion Page - Public Opinion, the Mass Media, and B.F. Skinner
Readings1. Instructions for the November 6, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Public Opinion and the Mass Media 4. Journal Article Reading: Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People - Street 5. Video Presentation: United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Public Opinion and the Mass Media [PowerPoint Presentation] Herman and Chomsky's 5 Filters on the Media - Al Jazeera Shadows of Liberty - Documentary News Content and Illusion: Four Information Biases That Matter - Bennett Power of Majority Opinion in America Over Thought - De Tocqueville Post-Fact Politics: Reviewing the History of Fake News and Propaganda - DiMaggio It's the Media, Stupid - McChesney / Nichols
Readings1. Instructions for the November 13, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Leadership Dynamics, Executive Offices, Bureaucracies, and Confucius 4. Journal Article Reading: Indigenous Leadership Points the Way Out of the COVID Crisis - Litvin 5. Video Presentation: Confucianism in Modern Society 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Leadership and Confucius [PowerPoint Presentation] Get Over It: Asia Rules - Escobar An Emergent Leadership Model Based on Confucian Virtues and East Asian Leadership Practices - Lang Gen Z National Student Leadership Begins Fightback for College Relief - Moses China's Quest for Moral Authority - Schell Cold War II - Lind
(November 20) Lecture / Discussion Page - Legislative and Judicial Systems and Upanishadic Hinduism
Readings1. Instructions for the November 20, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] Legislative and Judicial Systems and Upanishadic Hinduism 4. Journal Article Reading: Why Khanna Denounced Trump's White Supremacy, But Not Modi's Hindu Supremacy - Shrivastava 5a. Video Presentation: In Search of India's Soul: From Mughals to Modi - Episode 1 5b. Video Presentation: In Search of India's Soul: From Mughals to Modi - Episode 2 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation Legislative and Judicial Systems and Hinduism [PowerPoint Presentation] Why the Trump-Modi Friendship Is So Dangerous - Sen What Democracy? The Case for Abolishing the United States Senate - Rosenfeld Congress: The Pocketing of Power - Parenti Life Tenure Is Too Long for Supreme Court Justices - Taylor Jr. The Triumph of Hindu Majoritarianism - Chandra For Richer - Krugman
Readings1. Instructions for the November 27, 2023 Class 2. Text Reading 3. [Lecture Presentation] New Directions in Political Science and Important Cognate Fields 4. Journal Article Reading: On the Cowardice & Irrelevance of Social Science Scholars - Dimaggio 5. Video Presentation: Four Horsemen 6. Discussion Board Question for Video Presentation New Directions in Political Science [PowerPoint Presentation] Ecological Politics for the Working Class - Huber The Myth of a 'Value-Free' Social Science Or The Value of Political Commitments to Social Science - Petras The Politics of Social Science - Vidal A Message to the African Political Scientist - Quigley Resistance and the Left with Paul Street - On Contact with Chris Hedges
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Evidence from Science)Choosing to Evolve - Short [Book] The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction - Leslie [Book] The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation - Chew [Book] The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert on How Humans Are Causing Largest Die-Off Since Dinosaur Age - Democracy Now! Science and Human Nature - Samuels Humans v Nature: Our Long and Destructive Journey to the Age of Extinction - Weston Extinction Crisis Threatens Humanity - Cwienk Humans Are Causing Life on Earth to Vanish - Begum Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an 'Unprecedented' Pace - Plumer Should We Pay People to Take Care of Nature? A Possible Solution to the Mass Extinction Crisis - Rozsa Ideas in Philosophy on Human Extinction Are Toxic Seeds That Must Be Dealt With - Reville Why Superintelligence is a Threat That Should Be Taken Seriously - Torres You Can't Characterize Human Nature If Studies Overlook 85 Percent of People on Earth - The Conversation Why Do We Ignore Warnings About Earth's Future? - Sarchett Hunter-Gatherers and the Origins of Religion - Peoples, Duda, and Marlowe Galileo vs. God: The Father of Modern Science on Religion, Truth, and Human Nature - Popova Religion Understood in Relation to the Human Nature - Nazerian Countdown to Zero - Documentary Human Nature is Here to Stay: Why Biotechnology Will Not Change Our Bodies, Brains, and Desires - Arnhart
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Evidence from Religion)Human Nature: Views from Major World Religions - Educational Psychology Interactive In Theory: If the Human Race Becomes Extinct, Will the Concept of God Exist Elsewhere in the Universe? A Christian Perspective on the Sixth Mass Extinction - Rana Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth - Tucker and Grim The Human Extinction Movement Targets God and You - Horvat II Welcoming the End of Our World - Jolley The Religion of Environmental Alarmism - Tobin Will Humans Go Extinct? - Bennett The Purpose of Dinosaurs: Extinction and the Goodness of God - Sollereder Human Nature and the Purpose of Existence: Islam - Religion Library Human Nature and the Purpose of Existence: Hinduism - Religion Library Human Nature and the Purpose of Existence: Christianity - Religion Library Human Nature and the Purpose of Existence: Judaism - Religion Library Human Nature and the Purpose of Existence: Confucianism - Religion Library Human Nature and the Purpose of Existence: Buddhism - Religion Library If We Don't Take Human Extinction Seriously, How Integral Are We? - LeVasseur What Does Christianity Say About The Nature Of Humans? Five Honest Realities - Wallace
Books / Articles / Reports / Documents / Websites (Evidence from Philosophy)Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Human Nature Human Extinction! Don't Panic; Think About It Like a Philosopher - Hendricks Science, Religion & Human Nature - The Chomsky Sessions On Human Nature - Hull Humanism's Faith in Reason Represents Our Best Hope - Grayling Does Human Nature Exist? On the Philosophy of Human Nature - Danaher Human Nature Matters - Cleary and Pigliucci This Is Not the Sixth Extinction. It's the First Extermination Event - McBrien The Ethics of Human Extinction - Torres How Human Extinction Would Change the Earth - Geere When It Comes to Human Extinction, We Could Be Our Worst Enemy and Best Hope - Carson Solve Suffering by Blowing Up the Universe? The Dubious Philosophy of Human Extinction - The Conversation Is It Natural to Drive Species to Extinction? - Michael Civilization of Its Discontents - Freud The Bright Side of Extinction - Torres Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction - Korten Is Biology Destiny? - Gaspar Environmental Law's Extinction Problem - Akhtar-Khavari Do Humans Have a 'Religion Instinct'? - Ambrosino Feuerbach and Comte: Religion and Human Nature - Voegelin View
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