Political Theory 101

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MacKinnon, Rousseau, and the Origins of Inequality Dec 02, 2019

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Edmund and Benjamin discuss the many different origin stories of inequality, drawing on Catharine MacKinnon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Edmund on power: https://edmundjwilson.com/2019/11/01/on-power-tech-the-state-and-class/ Benjamin on Yang: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2019/08/14/andrew-yang-is-playing-hide-and-seek-with-the-left-press/

Augustine, Schmitt, and Political Theology (w/Raeffe Gibson) Nov 15, 2019

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Raeffe Gibson joins Benjamin and Edmund to discuss the idea that states need to be unified around common values.

Caesar, Weber, and the Power of Charisma Nov 09, 2019

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Edmund and Benjamin discuss the role of charismatic leaders in politics in the Roman Empire, interwar Germany, and more recently.

Aristotle, Constant, and the Distribution of Time Oct 14, 2019

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Benjamin and Edmund discuss the ancient zero-sum conception of liberty, attempts by later political theorists to universalise it, and some of the ways understandings of liberty have changed to accommodate that. Draws most heavily on Aristotle's "Politics" and Constant's "The Liberty of the Ancients Compared With That of the Moderns" and "Adolphe".

Hobbes, Plato, and the Rise of the State Oct 08, 2019

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Benjamin and Edmund discuss why both Hobbes and Plato think the state is necessary, comparing and contrasting the two along the way.

Welcome to Political Theory 101 Oct 03, 2019

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Benjamin Studebaker and Edmund Wilson welcome you to a new series about the history of political thought and some of the people who have contributed to it.

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