- Welcome to Moral Foundations of Politics
- Welcome to the course. Meet your instructor and learn about the structure of the course and what makes it distinctive.
- Enlightenment Political Theory
- This module explores what makes a government legitimate. More specifically, was the Third Reich illegitimate and was Eichmann breaking some kind of higher law here?
- Utilitarianism: Classical and Neoclassical
- Classical and neoclassical utilitarianism are examined in this module starting with the historical context. Professor Shapiro then shifts to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today.
- Marxism, Its Failures and Its Legacy
- This module on Marx's Enlightenment theory focuses on the foundations of capitalism theory and its major weaknesses.
- The Social Contract Tradition I
- This module looks at classical formulations of the Social Contract Tradition, locating them in historical context, but then shifts to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today.
- The Social Contract Tradition II
- This module looks at classical formulations of the Social Contract Tradition, locating them in historical context, but then shifts to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today.
- Anti-Enlightenment Politics
- This module explores the rejection of Enlightenment political thinking, again exploring both classical and contemporary formulations.
- Democracy
- This module deals with the nature of, and justifications for, democratic politics, and their relations to Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment political thinking.
