In Season 2 - our FOUNDATIONS series - we’ll examine European philosophers from the 17th through the 19th centuries, to see how their views have shaped and defined our own… whether we realize it or not.

We begin with the thesis statement from Mill’s ON LIBERTY. In what amounts to a fundamentally libertarian view of freedom – that my own freedom should not be limited, so long as I am not doing harm to others – we begin by asking:

• What constitutes harm?
• How must differing perspectives and power dynamics be weighed and considered?
• What does it means that the currency and mechanisms of our freedom, and the institutions of civil society that are designed to protect and ensure that freedom, are rooted in basic dynamics of European reasoning?

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***SEASON TWO READINGS AND SOURCES***

On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill

John Locke's 2nd Treatise on Civil Government, by John Locke

Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by Tyson Yunkaporta

A Treatise of Human Nature [Books 1-3], by David Hume

Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes

The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Encyclopedia Logic (Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Series #1), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy of Mind: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences Series #3), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hegel's Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Thom Brooks, Editor)

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