A Guide to Classical Liberalism

In this video, I introduce the key thinkers and theories of Classical Liberalism as well as tracing its origins in the history of ideas. Thinkers discussed included: Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Spinoza, Descartes, Locke, Montesquieu, Madison, the Federalists, Rousseau, Condorcet, Paine, Hume, Smith, and Burke.

Sources:

John Gray, Liberalism, 2nd edn. (1989; Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993)

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (various entries): https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html

Ian Shapiro, The Moral Foundations of Politics, Yale Lecture Series (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MOA_Y3MKE&list=PL2FD48CE33DFBEA7E

Jason Wyckoff, 'Rousseau's General Will and the Condorcet Jury Theorem', History of Political Thought, 31:1 (Spring 2011), 49-62: http://www.jstor.org/stable/26225750

João Carlos Espada, 'Edmund Burke and the Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty', Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 58 (May 2006), 213-30: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-philosophy-supplements/article/edmund-burke-and-the-anglo-american-tradition-of-liberty/1C269122479C9713ACE9F976CEDABEF0