What's your Political Leaning?

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Goal: Understand the complexity of the modern political spectrum to identify your own tendency and situate the major ideological families beyond the left-right divide.
What's your Political Leaning?
ProfessorDamien Theillier
LevelBeginner
Duration
9 hours
PriceFree
Course IDSOC104
Ratings
(70)

Description

Does your political positioning boil down to right or left? This course proposes a different framework: the fundamental Freedom-Coercion axis. Using the Nolan Diagram, we analyze political families (socialists, conservatives, centrists, and libertarians) not by their stated intentions, but by their confidence in government control. Discover the logic of spontaneous order, explore the real philosophical fault lines, and learn to define your own values beyond traditional labels.

This course also reveals why Bitcoin is a political project inherited from the Cypherpunks. A decentralizing force that opposes state currency, Bitcoin redefines the essential political question: do you decide your life, or does someone else?

Learning path

Objectives

  • Understanding that political typology is more nuanced than a simple left/right axis
  • Identify the two main dimensions that structure the political spectrum
  • Characterize the four main political families
  • Exploring the positioning of bitcoiners in the political spectrum

Curriculum

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Introduction
1.1 - Course overview
1.2 - The right-left divide trap
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Towards a new divide: freedom-coercion
2.1 - The Nolan diagram
2.2 - The two fundamental dimensions
2.3 - Are you a right-wing or a left-wing statist?
2.4 - Are you a cultural conservative or a political conservative?
2.5 - Are you a liberal or a libertarian?
2.6 - Are you a libertarian or a libertaire/anarchist (in French libertaire)?
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Political families under the microscope
3.1 - Structural and intentional definitions
3.2 - The socialists
3.3 - Conservatives
3.4 - Libertarians
3.5 - The centrists
3.6 - Totalitarian regimes
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Societal and economic issues
4.1 - Societal issues
4.2 - Economic issues
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Philosophical differences between political families
5.1 - Philosophical differences between political families
5.2 - Spontaneous vs. constructed order
5.3 - Individualism vs. collectivism
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The political trend among bitcoiners
6.1 - The political trend among bitcoiners
6.2 - Who are the cypherpunks?
6.3 - Who should decide?
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Final section
7.1 - Evaluate this course
7.2 - Final examination
7.3 - Conclusion
Professor

This course is taught by Damien Theillier

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Damien Theillier is a philosophy professor in Paris, a graduate of Sorbonne Paris IV, founder of the Institut Coppet and the École de la liberté. He is the co-author of the preparatory class manual General Culture (Pearson, 2013) and A Path to Freedom, the philosophy from Antiquity to our days, (Berg International, 2013). He has also contributed to Philosophy in 60 Books (Ellipse, 2021).

decentralizationself-sovereigntyhigh-level

Ratings & reviews

What students say about this course

General grade

4.63/5 (70 Reviews)
Daren A. Epstein

Daren A. Epstein

Taking all the courses with my son for homeschooling.

juan_manuel_dionisio

juan_manuel_dionisio

en los quiz se repiten las preguntas en todas las lecturas

cchung2026

cchung2026

j ai eu du mal a me concentrer sur ces chapitres trop theoriques mais necessaire pour comprendre l emergence de la philosophie des libertarians et donc du bitcoin. Par contre les quizz ininteressants car les reponses etaient quasiment les memes. Elles changeaient de lettre.

RAVI K. SHAH

RAVI K. SHAH

This course helpe in deeper understanding of political philosophies with clearity.

queen_butterfly

queen_butterfly

Intéressant

c0pinmalin

c0pinmalin

Tout tourne autour de "l'Etat" avec une opposition frontale qui considère que l'appel a l'état est un problème en soi sans jamais considérer que si tout le monde en arrive à mettre un état en place c'est qu'il y a sûrement une raison. Il n'y a aussi aucune ouverture sur les formes que peut prendre "l'Etat" au delà de la simple opposition. Apprendre a penser par soi même > "la bonne question" Qui doit décider moi ou qn d'extérieur = simpliste On passe finalement d'une lecture binaire a une autre lecture binaire; d'un conformisme a un autre Invoquer Mises "économiste" qui ne voit pas la différence économique entre nazisme et communisme ça confine a la bêtise crasse

Satopolys

Satopolys

une future référence.

MARTHA LUCIA RODRIGUEZ BALAGUERA

MARTHA LUCIA RODRIGUEZ BALAGUERA

gracias muy importante la informacion

lizeth.rodriguez

lizeth.rodriguez

Muchas gracias

Brigith Ramirez Uribe

Brigith Ramirez Uribe

Buen curso