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Political Spectrum Lecture Slides II

December 5, 2011 Leave a comment

Lecture slides

 
 

Lecture: Forms of Government

November 7, 2011 Leave a comment

Partially finished lecture focused on the contributions of the ancient Greeks and Romans and then the French Revolution to our understanding of government and the political spectrum.

Will be continued this week.

 
 

Unit Vocabulary: Forms of Government & Political Spectrum

November 7, 2011 Leave a comment

We are starting a unit on the forms of government and the philosophies of the modern political spectrum. Below is our unit vocabulary by category:

Forms of Government & Related Terms:

Anarchy, Tyranny, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Republic, Dictatorship, State of Nature, Social Contract, Natural Law, Revolution, Right of Revolution, Sovereign, Popular Sovereignty, State, Nation, Rule-Set

Political Spectrum & Related Terms:

Anarchist, Radical, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Reactionary, Authoritarian, Totalitarian, Libertarian, Populist

Philosophers & Thinkers:

Aristotle, Plato, Polybius, Cicero, Machiavelli, Baron de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, James Madison, Edmund Burke, Socrates, Ibn Khaldun, Confucius

Forms of Government include the Iron Fist of Tyranny!

November 7, 2011 Leave a comment

Students have begun learning about Forms of Government:

Anarchy

Aristocracy

Monarchy

Oligarchy

Democracy

Republic

Tyranny

Lecture: Revolutions in Worldviews

September 22, 2011 Leave a comment

LECTURE SLIDES:
Revolutions in Worldviews:

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