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The Social Contract: The Origins and Distribution of Power | Citizenship, Season 2
From human nature to social contract and state formation
Completed · 23 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Why Is Civic Consciousness So Important? 2. Paths and Dilemmas of Civic Education: Why These Ten Books? 3. The US Election and the Sources and Direction of Power in Public Life 1. Why Would People “Born Free” Choose to Put Themselves in Chains? 2. Reversing Cause and Effect: Is Society the Source of Our Misfortune? 3. Does Moral Character Decline as Art and Science Advance? 4. Rousseau's Character and Life: Citizen of Geneva, Lover of Aristocratic Women, Self-Taught Enlightener 5. The Noble Savage: Does Human Evil Arise Mainly from Social Organization? 6. Four Forces That Corrupt Humanity's Original Virtue 7. How Did Humans Lose Both Compassion and Freedom? 8. The Root of Political Power: Sovereignty Always Rests with the People; Only Government Is Delegated 9. The Social Contract: A Beautiful Vision That Never Existed? 10. The General Will: How Should an Ideal Civil Society Make Public Decisions? 11. Putting the General Will into Practice: Who Writes a Country's Rules of the Game? 12. Ideal Social Legislation: Replacing Natural Force with Social Force 13. Returning to What Ought to Be: Where Does Revolution's Mobilizing Power Come From? 14. A Contradiction of Identity: Why Are the People Both Sovereign and Ruled? 15. Tracing the Source of Power: Why May Society Execute a Murderer? 16. Rousseau's Self-Understanding: Resisting Hypocrisy with Truth and Feeling 17. Rousseau on Religion: If God Created Humanity, Why Did He Also Create Evil? 18. Where Does Rousseau's Influence across the Ages Come From? (Season Finale) Bonus | Yang Zhao × Xie Jing × dy: Can We Still Be Human in the Age of Runaway AI? The Global Tariff War: Why Can Trump Do Whatever He Wants? | Bonus