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美国自由的故事:1776-2005

The Story of American Freedom: 1776-2005
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/mitworld_foner_saf/  
主讲教师: Eric Foner
开课单位: 哥伦比亚大学
开课时间: 2012-02-25
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
尽管自由的概念在美国公共话语中几乎无处不在,而且可能不比今天更为普遍 - 但它在国家历史进程中已经受到了极大程度的影响。 Eric Foner从最早的时候就将其描述为“持续冲突与争论的主题”。 “这个以自由修辞为基础的国家也是一个奴隶社会,”Foner说。 “奴隶主坚持认为奴隶制是自由的真正基础,因为自由个体是一个自主的人,不依赖他人的经济生活。拥有一个奴隶增强了一个人的自由。“Foner认为,在自由的边界,”由非洲裔美国人和其他少数民族,妇女和工人“进行的战斗,已经加深并将自由的意义扩展到更多的生活领域。”国家接受了第14次修正案“一种非自由的自由观念”,下一场战争与经济自由相结合。是否应该允许个人在没有外界限制的情况下追求经济自身利益,或者经济自由是否意味着经济安全 - 生活工资,安全网?第二次世界大战以及与法西斯主义相遇,帮助“重塑自由的内部界限”,Foner说,并且是美国民权斗争的起源。冷战使国家重新定位于自由企业,这是我们全球的核心与暴政作斗争。现在,全球化和恐怖主义挑战了我们的自由观念。 Foner对当前政府对单一可持续自由模式的信念感到遗憾 - 我们自己。他认为,这种沙文主义违反了开放社会的概念,为限制家庭自由铺平了道路。
课程简介: Although the idea of freedom is nearly ubiquitous in American public discourse -- and perhaps no more so than today – it has been subject to a remarkable degree of flux over the course of the nation’s history. Eric Foner describes it as “a subject of persistent conflict and debate,” from the earliest times. “This country founded with the rhetoric of freedom was also a slave society,” says Foner. “Slave owners insisted that slavery was the real foundation of freedom, because a free individual was a person who was autonomous, not reliant on others for their economic livelihood. Owning a slave enhanced one’s freedom.” Foner believes that battles “at the boundaries of freedom,” by African Americans and other racial minorities, women and workers, “have deepened and extended the meaning of freedom into more areas of life.” After the nation accepted the 14th amendment -- “a nonracial idea of freedom”-- the next battle coalesced around economic freedom. Should an individual be allowed to pursue economic self-interest without outside restraint, or should economic freedom come to mean economic security—a living wage, a safety net? World War II, and the encounter with fascism, helped “reshape the internal boundaries of freedom,” says Foner, and served as the origins of the civil rights struggle in the U.S. The Cold War refocused the nation on free enterprise, central to our global battle against tyranny. And now globalization and terrorism challenge our notions of freedom. Foner deplores the current administration’s belief in a single sustainable model of freedom – our own. This chauvinism, he believes, violates the very notion of an open society, and paves the way for restricting freedoms at home.
关 键 词: 自由; 沙文主义; 奴隶
课程来源: 视频讲座网
最后编审: 2019-05-29:lxf
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