5.11 Cahoone (2014)
Cahoone, Lawrence (2014) The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas (Audio or Video with Course Guidebook). Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company.
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Dr. Lawrence Cahoone is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, where he has taught since 2000. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a two-time winner of the Undergraduate Philosophy Association Teaching Award at Boston University and has taught more than 50 different philosophy courses. He has a background in recent European, American, and social and political philosophy. Among the books he has authored are: Cultural Revolutions: Reason versus Culture in Philosophy, Politics, and Jihad; Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics; The Ends of Philosophy: Pragmatism, Foundationalism, and Postmodernism; and The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture, and Anti-Culture. He also edited From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. (Click the book cover (right) to go to The Teaching Company's website page for this course. There you can watch a short 90 second video, see a detailed description of the course and a list of its 36 30-minute lectures.) |
This Resource’s Key Interpretations and Insights Related to the Purposes of This Website
Cahoone's is an expert on the historical precedents of the ideas that shaped the original experiment of American
republicanism and the struggles between its two main elements--liberal and civic republicanism--that still define the current political situation today. Along with 5.7 this resource provides the historical grounding for this website's view of American politics.
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Cahoone's is an expert on the historical precedents of the ideas that shaped the original experiment of American
republicanism and the struggles between its two main elements--liberal and civic republicanism--that still define the current political situation today. Along with 5.7 this resource provides the historical grounding for this website's view of American politics.
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Endorsement
"Liberty. Democracy. Rights. Community. The terms and concepts originated by political philosophers have become so ingrained in our global consciousness that politicians and ordinary citizens reference them with frequency and a sense of assuredness. Without even realizing it, we all use the fruits of political philosophy. The question is, are we using them well?
"Many of us have an incomplete picture of how the ideas of political philosophy developed or their intentions and implications, despite their ubiquity. Complicating the matter, the meaning of many words in the political lexicon has evolved over time; 'freedom,' 'equality,' 'liberal,' 'conservative,' 'neoconservative,' 'libertarian,' 'progressive,' 'socialist,' 'democratic,' and 'republican' have each been used in a variety of ways.
"Practically speaking, if we can grasp these concepts and understand their history, we are in a far better position to follow and evaluate political discussions in the media and among our social circles with discernment, so we can understand the terms as well as--if not better than-- those who casually bandy them about.
"In addition, tracing the origin of political thought and its execution on a grand scale allows us to develop big-picture awareness of political philosophy's enormous influence throughout modern history, adding historical and philosophical depth to our understanding of both past and current events." ~partial website course description
"Many of us have an incomplete picture of how the ideas of political philosophy developed or their intentions and implications, despite their ubiquity. Complicating the matter, the meaning of many words in the political lexicon has evolved over time; 'freedom,' 'equality,' 'liberal,' 'conservative,' 'neoconservative,' 'libertarian,' 'progressive,' 'socialist,' 'democratic,' and 'republican' have each been used in a variety of ways.
"Practically speaking, if we can grasp these concepts and understand their history, we are in a far better position to follow and evaluate political discussions in the media and among our social circles with discernment, so we can understand the terms as well as--if not better than-- those who casually bandy them about.
"In addition, tracing the origin of political thought and its execution on a grand scale allows us to develop big-picture awareness of political philosophy's enormous influence throughout modern history, adding historical and philosophical depth to our understanding of both past and current events." ~partial website course description
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