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Understanding
Self-Government Spring, 2018 Teacher: Jim Bolner, Sr. - jimbolnersr @ gmail.com UNDER CONSTRUCTION |
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Outline
Human Nature and Autonomy
Understanding Ourselves: Human
Self-Awareness
Family and Society
The Human Condition: Conflict for
Resources and Space
II. The Human Search for Order
Human Consciousness and the Search
for Order and Meaning
Organizing Society: Theocracy,
Oligarchy, and Democracy
The Search for True Autonomy
The Search for Conflict Resolution
III. Individualism
The Individual as Free
True Individualism
Limits on Individualism
IV. Collectivism
The Necessity of Collectivism
The Family and the Tribe
The Ethnic State
V. Forms of Government
Autocracy, Direct Democracy,
Representative Government
The Idea of a State of Nature Is Conflict Inevitable?
Idea of a Social Contract
VI. The Western Secular Experiment
From Divine Right to Social Contract
Understanding Secularism
Problems with Theocracy
Problems with Secularism Resources on the Internet
American
Government - A textbook --from ushistory.org
Thomas Hobbes' State of Nature and Social Contract --from oregonstate.edu
John Locke' Political Philosophy --from
oregonstate.edu
The Mayflower Compact --from the Avalon
Project Frank Lovett,
"Republicanism" --from the Stanford Enclyclopedia of Philosophy
"Anarchism" --from Wikipedia John Christman, “Autonomy in Moral and Political Philosophy”
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/autonomy-moral/
Jane Dryden,
“Autonomy,” in the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy Michael Reber, "American Principles of Self-Government" --from Education and Culture (2003) Hurst Hannum, "Legal Aspects of Self-Determination" --from Encyclopedia Princentoniensis "Self-Determination," --from Wikpedia Voting Systems --from fairvote.org Voting Methods --from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Christopher W. Blackwell, "Athenian Democracy: A Brief Overview" --from stoa.org Robert A. Dahl, "Democracy" --from britannica.com Fundamental Questions David Brooks, "The Elites Don't Get It" --from The New York Times, November 16, 2017 Pope Francis, "Migrants and Refugees: Men and Women in Search of Peace" --from The Holy See Georgie Ann Geyer, "The Presidents Reflects the Worst in Us" --from The Morning Advocate, November 25, 2017 Barton Swain, "Barton Swain on Political Books" --from The Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2017 "Subsidiarity" --from the Catechism of the Catholic Church Thomas D. Edsall, "The Self-Destruction of American Democracy" --from The New York Times, November 30, 2017 Mark LIlla, "The End of Identity Liberalism" --from The New York Times, November 16, 2016 Editorial, "The Tax Bill That Inequality Creatged" --from The New York Times, December 16, 2017 Ian Carter, "Positive and Negative Liberty" --from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy David Brooks, "The Glory of Democracy" --from The New York Times, December 14, 2017 Gerald Seib, "The Great--and Global--Threats Confronting Democracy" --from The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2017 Niall Ferguson, "In Praise of Hierarchy" --from The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2018 Deidre N. McCloskey - Review of Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower --from The Wall Street Journal January 13, 2018 Hans Eicholz, "Self-government and the Distinctive Character of American Society" --from the Foundation for Economic Education - July 1, 2001 David Brooks, "How Democracies Fail" --from The New York Times, January 11, 2018 Tod Lindberg - Review of Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed - from The Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2018 Patrick J. Deneen, "Unsustainable Liberalism" --from The Institute of Religion in Public Life, June, 2012 Matthew Hutson, Book Review of The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson (2018) Greg Ip, "A Fractured World: Nationalism vs. the Global Liberal Order" --from The Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2018 Charter of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Interview - Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "Why Democracies Die" --from NPR, February 2, 2018 Steve Levitsky and Seniel Ziblatt, "How Wobbly Is Our Democracy" --from The New York Times, February 11, 2018 Mark Twain, "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" --from Project Gutenberg Jelani Cobb, "State of the Resistance" --from The New Yorker, February 12 and 19, 2018 Norm Orenstein, "American Kakistocracy" --from The Atlantic - October 9, 2017 Alan Pinker, "The Enlightenment is Working" --from The Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2018 Max Roser, "Democracy" --from ourworldindata.org David Brooks, "The End of the Two-Party System" --from The New York Times, February 13, 2018 Michael Gerson, "Trump Shuns Nobility of Public Life" --from The Morning Advocate, February 14, 2018 Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government -- [Summary and Analysis] --from Google Books Andreas Schedler, "Elections Without Democracy: The Menu of Manipulation" --from Project Muse John Lloyd, "Commentary: How Democracy's Spread Dashed Dreams of Liberalism" -- Reuters, February 16, 2018 Thomas Picketty, "Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict" William Galston, "The Clear and Present Danger of Donald Trump" --from The Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2018 Robert E. West, "English Irish Slaves" --Global Research (2016) The Trump Tweeter Archive --from the Trump Tweeter Archive Fareed Zackaria, "The Rise of Illiberal Democracy" --from Foreign Affairs, 1997 "Freedom in the World: Democracy in Crisis" --from Freedom House, 2018 "Compulsory Voting" --from Wikipedia Laurence Steinbert, "Why We Should Lower the Voting Age to 16" --from The New York Times, March 2, 2018 "Presidential Authority Over Trace: Imposing Tariffs and Duties" --from the Congressional Reference Service (2016) "Putin's Revenge" --from PBS, "Frontline," October 25, 2017 "American's Greatest Threat: Vladimir Putin" --from the history.com, February 28, 2018 Justice Robert H. Jackson, Concurring Opinion in Dennis v. United States (1951) --from Cornell Legal Information Institute Barton Swaim, "The Right Way to Defend Democracy" --from The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2018 "Vote: That's Just What They Don't Want You to Do" --Editorial, New York Times, March 11, 2018 David Brooks, "The Chaos After Trump" --from The New York Times, March 5, 2018 "Initiative, Referendum and Recall" --from the National Conference of State Legislatures "History of Initiative and Referendum in the United States" --from Ballotpedia.org William A. Galston, "Populism's Challenge to Democracy" --from The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2018 Justice Robert H. Jackson, Concurring in Dennis v. United States (1951) Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger, "Cyberattacks Put Russian Fingers on the Switch at Power Plants, U.S. Says"--from The New York Times, March 15, 2018 Cheery, upbeat websites... humanprogress.org "We hope that this website leads to a greater appreciation of the improving state of the world and stimulates an intelligent debate on the drivers of human progress." gapminder.org ...Gapminder Foundation "...promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels." ourworldindata.org "Our World in Data is an online publication that shows how living conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global overview and to show changes over the very long run, so that we can see where we are coming from and where we are today. We need to understand why living conditions improved so that we can seek more of what works."
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