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Lecture 4 - "Ever at Variance and Foolishly Jealous": Intercolonial Relations, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses colonial attempts to unite before the 1760s and the ways in which regional distrust and localism complicated matters. A...

Lecture 24 - Democratic Justice: Theory, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Shapiro takes up again Schumpeter’s minimalist conception of democracy. When operationalized as a two turnover test, this conception of ...

Lecture 4 - Origins of Classical Utilitarianism, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Jeremy Bentham’s formulation of classical utilitarianism is the first Enlightenment tradition that the course will cover in depth. In his Principle...

Lecture 20 - Confederation, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 This lecture discusses the ongoing political experimentation involved in creating new constitutions for the new American states. Having declared in...

Lecture 9 - The Marxian Challenge, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Marxism is the second Enlightenment tradition upon which the course will focus. Contrary to popular belief, Marx did not hate capitalism but deriv...

Lecture 21 - A Union Without Power, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses the Articles of Confederation. Although they seem hopelessly weak in the long view of history, the Ar...

Lecture 5 - Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Shapiro continues his examination of Jeremy Bentham’s formulation of classical utilitarianism, with a focus on the distributive implicat...

Lecture 18 - Tuberculosis (I): The Era of Consumption, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 An ancient disease, tuberculosis experienced a major upsurge in Western Europe in the nineteenth century, corresponding with increasing industrial...

Lecture 25 - Democratic Justice: Applications, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Shapiro guides the class through some practical applications of his theory of democratic justice. As applied to governing children, a sp...

Lecture 1 - Introduction: Freeman’s Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman offers an introduction to the course, summarizing the readings and discussing the course’s main goals. She also offers five tips...

Lecture 3 - Being a British American, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Freeman discusses the differences between society in the American colonies and society in Britain in the eighteenth century. She uses exa...

Lecture 6 - From Classical to Neoclassical Utilitarianism, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this economics-oriented lecture, Professor Shapiro introduces neoclassical utilitarianism as it was formulated by economist Vilfredo Pareto and...

Lecture 13 - Contagionism versus Anticontagionism, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The debate between contagionists and anticontagionists over the transmission of infectious diseases played a major role in nineteenth-century medic...

Lecture 18 - Fighting the Revolution: The Big Picture, The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Today’s lecture concludes Professor Freeman's discussion of the four phases of the Revolutionary War. America's victory at the Ba...

Lecture 23 - Democracy and Majority Rule, part II, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Majority rule and democratic competition serve as the focus of this second lecture on the democratic tradition. What is it about majority rule that...

Lecture 3 - Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Before exploring the three Enlightenment traditions in particular, Professor Shapiro examines the Enlightenment holistically, using John Locke as ...

Lecture 12 - Syphilis: From the "Great Pox" to the Modern Version, Epidemics in Western Society Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 There is a longstanding debate over the origins of syphilis, in which arguments over how the disease arrived in Europe have historically been link...

Lecture 17 - The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?), The American Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 In this lecture, Professor Freeman explains the logic behind American and British military strategy during the early phases of the Revolution. Fir...

Lecture 22 - Democracy and Majority Rule, part I, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 Professor Shapiro transitions to the third and final section of the course, an in-depth look at democracy and its institutions. According to him, ...

Lecture 2 - The Trial of Adolf Eichmann, The Moral Foundations of Politics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: May 25, 2011 The trial of Adolf Eichmann, as presented in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, is the topic of discussion. Professor Shapiro asks students wh...

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