Moral Foundations of Politics

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Taught by
Ian Shapiro
Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director
and 9 more instructors

Offered by
Yale University

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0 posts • 19 mentions • top 10 shown below

r/chile • comment
9 points • Bl4nkface

Haz un curso online de ciencias políticas y vas a quedar mucho mejor orientado que leyendo un mamotreto de 800 páginas escrito desde la mirada de un solo autor sobre la economía y sociedad de hace 200 años. A partir de lo aprendido en el curso puedes leer libros que te interesen.

Este curso se ve bueno (en inglés, por si acaso).

r/Political_Revolution • post
106 points • buddybaker10
Welcome to Bernie Sanders University: here's my compiled list of useful online courses for the political revolution

Bernie keeps telling citizens that politics is not a spectator sport. This means that you have to participate. Primarily, you should get involved with politics. Get in touch with other progressives in your area and start doing something with them.

But you should also learn skills that can help you participate more effectively. There are several ways to do this. Here, I want you to consider Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). So I picked a few MOOCs that can be helpful.

I only took two of these - Learning How To Learn and The Science of Everyday Thinking - and both are very popular and would be a good introduction to MOOCs, if you’re unsure about it. So I’m not sure that all my other suggestions will be great but every one of those is teaching skills that I think will be useful and that’s why I chose them.

I recommend that you start with Learning How To Learn (or the popular course Aprender, if Spanish is your preferred language). You’ll learn skills that will be useful for political participation or just anything you do in your life that involves effectively using any information to which you were exposed, but you’ll also learn how to make the most out of the courses that you take next, so you may be losing if you start other courses first. I’ve also included another “learning” course, in case you’re really serious about it.

Here are my suggestions:

This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. (...) Using these approaches, no matter what your skill levels in topics you would like to master, you can change your thinking and change your life. (...) If you’ve ever wanted to become better at anything, this course will help serve as your guide.

4 hours of video, 3 hours of exercises, 3 hours of bonus material

  • Aprender - note: in Spanish - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Coursera

En APRENDER conocerás y pondrás en práctica, de forma sencilla y práctica, resultados de investigación recientes sobre los procesos de lectura, almacenamiento de información, recuperación de recuerdos y velocidad de procesamiento. Así, podrás utilizar, de forma eficiente, estrategias y técnicas muy útiles en tu vida académica, profesional y cotidiana.

4 semanas, 3-6 horas/semana

In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to maximize your grades in an online course. This includes how to use the structure and theories of contemporary education to your advantage, how to set your own educational goals, and how best to learn with your peers in an online environment.

6 hours worth of material

Learn how to think better, argue better, and choose better. (...) We will explore the psychology of our everyday thinking: why people believe weird things, how we form and change our opinions, why our expectations skew our judgments, and how we can make better decisions. (...) You will use the scientific method to evaluate claims, make sense of evidence, and understand why we so often make irrational choices. You will begin to rely on slow, effortful, deliberative, analytic, and logical thinking rather than fast, automatic, instinctive, emotional, and stereotypical thinking.

12 weeks, 2 hrs/week

Metaliteracy promotes critical thinking and self-reflection to consume, create, and share information with others. Participants will learn how to critically navigate, evaluate and produce information in open, online, and social media settings. (...) This approach is relevant to anyone who wants to be an informed consumer of digital information and active contributor to social settings mediated by technology.

Learn how to solve complex problems with analysis based decision-making and solution designs. (...) There are multiple ways to make decisions, but one way proven to be very useful is the analytical approach - a methodology for making the problem explicit and rationalising the different potential solutions. In short: analysis based support of decision making, design and implementation of solutions. [This] course teaches you this method.

Effective altruism is built on the simple but unsettling idea that living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good one can. In this course you will examine this idea's philosophical underpinnings; meet remarkable people who have restructured their lives in accordance with it; and think about how effective altruism can be put into practice in your own life.

10-15 hours of videos and assignments

This course is designed as a vocabulary of the main terms used by all of us when talking about local as well as world politics. We often use these terms without a proper awareness of their meanings and connections, a circumstance not exactly helpful for any attempt to understand how politics really works, regardless of our wishful thinking or simplistic morality or easy cynicism. (...) Part 1: What is Politics?; Part 2: How Does Politics Work?; Part 3: World Politics and the Future; Part 4: Ethics and Politics

When do governments deserve our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? This course explores the main answers that have been given to this question in the modern West. (...) In addition to exploring theoretical differences among the various authors discussed, considerable attention is devoted to the practical implications of their competing arguments. To this end, we discuss a variety of concrete problems, including debates about economic inequality, affirmative action and the distribution of health care, the limits of state power in the regulation of speech and religion, and difficulties raised by the emerging threat of global environmental decay.

8 weeks of study, 12-15 hours/week

What goes on ‘behind the scenes’ of political decision-making? Who advises politicians, and how big is their influence? (...) This course is designed to outline key features of policy advice and political consulting and their impact on governance. We will observe the key players on the spot as well as those behind the scenes and we will analyze their patterns of interaction. (...) Whom do (and should) politicians and society listen to, and what do (and should) they make of the advice they receive?

This course will equip you to utilize a powerful, eight-step method for analyzing public policy problems and formulating recommendations for addressing them. (...) You will examine specific policy examples and learn to apply this method to the social challenges you wish to concentrate upon in your own work.

6 weeks, 3-4 hours per week

Analyze how politicians debate and what the underlying patterns are in the game of framing and reframing. (...) When you enter into a debate, you might be faced with frames of your opponents – and you will have to reframe the debate. This (...) makes the debate to look like a chessboard made out of words. Of course, politicians play this game, trying to pull the debate towards their own words and metaphors in order to win their audience. But the game can be found everywhere: in the world of business, science, media – even at home. (...) You will discover how this game is played, and how you can play it yourself.

6 weeks, 2-4 hours/week

We’ll learn how organize talks clearly, write them memorably, and deliver them confidently. By the end of the course, you should be able to significantly reduce your fear of public speaking, use rehearsal techniques to develop a strong, vibrant speaking voice, and perform speeches with dynamic movement and gestures. The speech model that we’ll practice is useful for briefings, elevator talks, interviews, and even as a structure for hour-long presentations.

r/Political_Revolution • post
6 points • 4now5now6now
People Are Expressing Interest In Learning More About Political Theory! Coursera Has Free Online Courses! https://www.coursera.org/courses?languages=en&query=political+science

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May 28th has a course from Yale https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics About this course: When do governments deserve our allegiance, and when should they be denied it?

This course explores the main answers that have been given to this question in the modern West. We start with a survey of the major political theories of the Enlightenment: Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition. In each case we begin with a look of classical formulations, locating them in historical context, but then shift to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today.

Next we turn to the rejection of Enlightenment political thinking, again exploring both classical and contemporary formulations. The last part of the course deals with the nature of, and justifications for, democratic politics, and their relations to Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment political thinking.

In addition to exploring theoretical differences among the various authors discussed, considerable attention is devoted to the practical implications of their competing arguments. To this end, we discuss a variety of concrete problems, including debates about economic inequality, affirmative action and the distribution of health care, the limits of state power in the regulation of speech and religion, and difficulties raised by the emerging threat of global environmental decay.

r/brasil • comment
1 points • joyx

O Ian Shapiro é realmente um professor sensacional. Tem um curso no Coursera dele que é muito bom também: Moral Foundations of Politics

r/PoliticalCompassMemes • comment
1 points • Arahad2

I gotchu ma man

https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics

"When do governments deserve our allegiance, and when should they be denied it?

This course explores the main answers that have been given to this question in the modern West. We start with a survey of the major political theories of the Enlightenment: Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social contract tradition. In each case, we begin with a look at classical formulations, locating them in historical context, but then shift to the contemporary debates as they relate to politics today.

Next, we turn to the rejection of Enlightenment political thinking, again exploring both classical and contemporary formulations. The last part of the course deals with the nature of, and justifications for, democratic politics, and their relations to Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment political thinking. In addition to exploring theoretical differences among the various authors discussed, considerable attention is devoted to the practical implications of their competing arguments.

To this end, we discuss a variety of concrete problems, including debates about economic inequality, affirmative action and the distribution of health care, the limits of state power in the regulation of speech and religion, and difficulties raised by the emerging threat of global environmental decay."

r/PoliticalScience • comment
1 points • shubhamplank

I am afraid there is no one book, but there are "one single course" on Introduction ot political Science/theory. Moral foundation of politics. (https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics) is one such course by Yale Serling prof. Ian Shiparo.

r/lectures • comment
2 points • zethien

My favorite from Yale is Shapiro's Moral Foundations of Politics, they have apparently removed it from the free courses however...

https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics

The old free course opened with the Eichmann Trial which was life changing to me (it literally created a mental barrier for me to work in the military industrial complex as an engineer)

r/PoliticalScience • comment
1 points • Rlyeh_Dispatcher

If you're interested in looking at political theory more (or at least just to skim some courses to feel out what they talking about), I really recommend watching Michael Sandel's course on justice as well as Ian Shapiro's Moral Foundations of Politics (either his older lecture version on Youtube or his more "clean-up" iteration on Coursera.

r/coursera • comment
1 points • callmecuriousperson

There are two courses on Coursera that I have taken, related to governance, which I found incredibly interesting:

Model Thinking, from University of Michigan and Moral Foundations of Politics, from Yale University. There is also a course on Modern History which sounds interesting (I haven't taken it).

Completing a bunch of courses in your domain of interest definitely helps in applications, supporting your interest in the field. I had done 5-10 courses related to a field that I wanted to get in, but had no prior experience, and it definitely helped boost my application letter. You won't get credit however for these courses.

r/serbia • comment
1 points • bemtiglavuudupe

Coursera je objavila njihove najpopularnije kurseve u 2021. godini (svi su besplatni). A od ovoga što si naveo, najpopularniji su im Introduction to Electronics, The Modern World, Part One: Global History from 1760 to 1910 i Moral Foundations of Politics.