ProfessorDamien Theillier
LevelBeginner
Duration
9 hours
PriceFree
Course IDSOC104
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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.
Description
Does your political positioning boil down to right or left? This course offers a revolutionary approach to understanding the political spectrum through the fundamental Freedom-Coercion axis. Using the Nolan Diagram, we analyze political families-socialists, conservatives, centrists and libertarians-not according to their stated intentions, but according to their degree of confidence in government control. Discover the logic of spontaneous order, explore the real philosophical issues (individualism vs. collectivism) and learn to define your own values without falling into the traps of traditional labels.
This course will also reveal why Bitcoin is more than just a currency: it's a political project inherited from the Cypherpunks. Far from being classifiable on a linear axis, Bitcoin is a decentralizing force that opposes state currency, offering a peaceful escape from inflation and surveillance. By limiting centralized power over money, Bitcoin redefines the essential political question: Do you decide your life, or does someone else? Dive into this analysis to sharpen your ideological compass and understand the profound political impact of this technology on your individual freedom.
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
+-Introduction
+-Towards a new divide: freedom-coercion
+-Political families under the microscope
+-Societal issues
+-Economic issues
+-Philosophical differences between political families
+-The political trend among bitcoiners
This course is taught by Damien Theillier
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
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