NOC:Introduction to Western Political Thought (USB)
Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. Mithilesh Kumar Jha
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Guwahati
NPTEL Lecture Count : 30
NPTEL Course Size : 15 GB
NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included
NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - General Outline and Method
Lecture 2 - Method: Text and Context
Lecture 3 - Intro and Justice
Lecture 4 - State and Philosopher King
Lecture 5 - Communism of Wives and Property and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 6 - Intro and Ethics or Virtue
Lecture 7 - Politics and His Ideal State
Lecture 8 - Aristotle-III: Citizenship, Views on Revolution and Criticall Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 9 - Machiavelli-I: Intro and Virtu and Fortuna
Lecture 10 - Machiavelli-II: Politics, Violence, and Religion
Lecture 11 - Machiavelli-III: Republicanism and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 12 - Intro and Human Nature
Lecture 13 - The Leviathan or Sovereign
Lecture 14 - Political Obligation and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 15 - Intro, State of Nature and Natural Rights
Lecture 16 - Limited Government
Lecture 17 - Right to Dissent and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 18 - Rousseau-I: Intro and Social Contract
Lecture 19 - Rousseau-II: General Will and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 20 - Kant-I: Intro and What is Enlightenment?
Lecture 21 - Kant-II: Morality, Autonomy and Freedom
Lecture 22 - Kant-III: Kingdom of Ends and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 23 - Hegel-I: Intro and Freedom
Lecture 24 - Hegel-II: Civil Society and State
Lecture 25 - Hegel-III: Rights and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 26 - Marx-I: Intro and Historical Materialism
Lecture 27 - Marx-II: State and Class
Lecture 28 - Marx-III: Views on Politics, Communism and Critical Assessment of his Thought
Lecture 29 - Mill-I: Intro, Utilitarianism and Subjection of Women
Lecture 30 - Mill-II: On Liberty, Representative Government and Critical Assessment of his Thought