The Great Courses: Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory (DVDs and course guidebook) (1991) ~ by Professor Dennis Dalton, Barnard College/Columbia University

The Great Courses: Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory

(DVDs and Course Guidebook)

By Professor Dennis Dalton, Barnard College/Columbia University

Published: 1991

Course description from The Great Courses website:

“Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, Gandhi—these exceptional thinkers sculpted, piece by piece, Western political thought from its inception in 5th-century (B.C.) Athens.In so doing, they grappled with such imposing questions as:

• What is the correct relationship of the individual to society?
• What is the connection between individual freedom and social and political authority?
• Are human beings fundamentally equal or unequal?

“In 16 in-depth lectures, Professor Dennis Dalton puts the key theories of power formulated by several of history’s greatest minds within your reach.

“Dr. Dalton traces two distinct schools of political theory, idealism and realism, from their roots in ancient India and Greece through history and, ultimately, to their impact on the 20th century—via the lives and ideas of two charismatic, yet utterly disparate, leaders: Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi.”

Like new green book DVDs in their original cases.  The wrappings seem to have been opened previously and were subsequently retaped…………………………………v120 Bx44H