Waching daily Jan 7 2019

South Korea is planning to release a video in six more languages aiming to

refute claims by Japan that one of its planes was locked on by a South Korean

warships targeting radar the video is already on YouTube in Korean and English

but the Defense Ministry says they are making versions in Japanese Chinese

French Russian Spanish and Arabic in the video the Ministry says the South Korean

destroy did not target the Japanese plane and was on a mission in the East

Sea to rescue a boat in distress it also says the Japanese planes low altitude

flight was quote threatening the ministry says it wants to prevent the

spread of misunderstandings after Japan's release of a video about the

incident that it says distorts the facts

For more infomation >> S. Korean video on Japan radar dispute to be available in 8 languages - Duration: 0:48.

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PS 111 Lioy - W19 - Week 1 - Third Video - Duration: 5:05.

OK so here we are to the third and

last video for week 1 of class I have a

couple things to say and I think I

should say them at the beginning of the

of the video while I have still your

full attention which are that I

apologize for having put a PDF file

instead of a Word document at first on

Canvas and now I think I fixed that, and

the links should work and REVEL should

also be fixed soon at the beginning of

the week hopefully! bBfore you do

anything else before you finish your

week 1 of readings you should have, you

should make sure that you know what

you're reading for OK? So...read the first

assignment which is due in week 2 and see

if it makes sense to you, see what you'll

have to do as I said in the previous

video, you're gonna have to use some of

these thinkers some of these ideologues

some of these philosophers, that we

talked about okay and you need to know

how to use them, also read the little

webcomic that I posted if you haven't

done so yet. I hope that you've

understood what it says there's a little

lesson there about the nature of

question and answers okay? And even if

you don't understand the whole thing, try

to think about the final question that a

big frog character, the rich capitalist

character is saying at the end of the

video what does it mean? okay? Also how do

you do readings for this class? Take

notes while you do the readings other

than just doing the quizzes on REVEL

okay? And other than that after you've

done the readings make sure that you

access your group page and leave a

comment or a newspaper article OK?

there's a list of approved sources that

you're gonna find in both of the files

on how to do assignments okay after I've

done these couple just little pieces of

advice I have to finish here with the

last part of week 1 okay? So we were in

Chapter 2

and the last video left off with with...

Rousseau OK?

After Rousseau we get to something that

is very important especially for

American ideology which is the birth of

classic liberalism okay? So classic

liberalism is rooted in the idea that

individual rights are very important

okay?

Some people push it to the extreme maybe

you've seen people with like bumper

stickers or hats with a black snake on

yellow saying DON'T TREAD ON ME okay

that's like a mark of very strong

American liberalism, saying I wanna be

left alone I wanna be left to my own

thing, my individual rights are sacred

okay? And this often goes with, and even

if you don't have to go so extreme the

idea of individual rights is

strong in America in general and it goes

with the idea that private property is

sacred and that government should be

limited okay? This normally goes together

with the ideas of the Scottish thinker

and philosopher Adam Smith, who at the

end of the 18th century came up with

this famous idea of the "invisible hand"

of the market okay?

Very often people think that the

invisible hand of the market means that

markets are perfect in that we if we

leave stuff to the market everything is

gonna work out that we don't need a big

state intervention, but that it's just

enough for people to do the work for

companies to try to produce different

goods like for example a certain company

produces bananas in Central America

another company produces steel, a third

company produces software, and Internet

services okay? Because of how the market

works if we leave them alone and there's

no intervention everything is gonna be

fine and society is gonna prosper that's

not what Adams made meant although it

would have been very nice if he meant

that and if it worked like that...but he

only meant that that's how a market

works that we cannot tell how a market

works exactly, because we cannot observe

all the agents in their operation, but it

works as if there were an "invisible hand"

people get paid for their jobs and then

pay for other services,

magically somehow we all or most of us

do have a job

some are unemployed, but hopefully they

can get a job after a while and we all

trade and exchange with each other okay?

The very important idea that we need to

remember from Adam Smith is that trade

brings prosperity trade in things makes

us richer. Exchanging things makes us

richer, if you can like give back

massages, and no one else in your town

can give back massages then you being

able to give back massages to people or

selling avocados to people if no one

else....

For more infomation >> PS 111 Lioy - W19 - Week 1 - Third Video - Duration: 5:05.

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PS 111 Lioy - W19 - Week 1 - Second Video - Duration: 8:49.

The previous video was mainly dealing with

the subjects presented in Chapter one of

the Parsons book now that we move to

chapter two some of you might be tempted

to skip over this chapter because it

talks about political philosophy it

talks about a little bit of what is the

history of political science over time

and you might ask yourselves why do we

have to to deal with this stuff? This is

not a class in in the history of

politics! Kkay well I think it's very

important because the main philosophers

and thinkers that are presented in this

chapter are all very important to the

way that we see political science now

and because in particular it's great to

see how the discipline has evolved over

time and what kind of question people

were asking that were alive before us

Okay so first of all at the very

beginning Greek thinkers like Plato and

Aristotle we're thinking more about how

politics should be than how politics is

in real life

okay so Plato was thinking that if

philosophers were the kings of our

society

if thinkers were the kings of our

society they would be the best suited

ones okay we would take private property

away from them they would just be

servants of the state and they would do

the best job okay? Many people today

still think that that would be the case,

if we had a government by the wise or

government by scientists that we would

be best off okay? That's an idea that is

completely different from our modern

idea of representative democracy.

Aristotle on the other side was much

closer to the way that we think about

politics today because he was thinking

about many different forms of government.

So he talks about a monarchy he talks

about the tyranny were the mo.. when the

monarch behaves like an absolute monarch,

or like a dictator. He was thinking about

a form of representative democracy when

the interest of all the people are

represented and then he was also

thinking of a form of democracy that is

more close to a plebiscite and where the

mass is just governed in a way that

destroys the minority

okay? which we'll see that Tocqueville took

from okay? Alexis de Tocqueville the

French philosopher and thinker that came

to America.

So other than Plato and Aristotle who do

we need to remember we need to remember

that there were thinkers not just in

Western Europe not just in Greece but

also in China like Confucius or in India

like Kautliya who looked more at how

politics was like in reality okay?

Confucius in particular thought that the

emperor was ruling by divine right, but

at the same time that if the people

thought that the Emperor was behaving

like a tyrant well then he had lost his

divine right to govern okay? And they

could take him down

same thing Kautliya: he was the first

to say "look at how politics is in

reality don't just think about the

perfect form of government on paper" OK?

and he was the first to understand how

paper how power worked okay Niccolò

Machiavelli was the first medieval

thinker that we remember in the history

of philosophy okay? He was an Italian he

was a Florentine in Florence and he's

remembered for being a real pessimist

because he's the one who thought of a

very cut-throat model of politics where

people just intrigue against each other

and try to kill each other and so his

advice for a prince, for a ruler, for

mayor president today was kill other

people before they kill you or something

or something of that kind okay? So he's

remembered today for being very

pessimistic, but he's very important

because he can be considered the founder

together with Hobbes who followed him of

international relations, so of relations

between different states, between

different countries as a different realm

from just the politics of everyday the

politics of a town, the politics of a

city and so on and so forth. Why is the

city important in all of this okay The

city is very important because, until the

creation of modern

States which is more or less in the

1800s, cities were the way

that people experience politics the most

and they were the closest to our modern

ideal of democracy because larger

units such as empires like the Roman

Empire or the Habsburg Empire were

normally ruled in a very fragmented way

or in a very unitary way with an iron

fist, by some strong ruler and a strong

king or Emperor. On the other side cities

tended to be ruled on a more egalitarian

basis also because inside the city there

tended to be less inequality okay?

Inequality always gets in the way of

true power of (sorry) of true democracy of

true egalitarian politics okay? okay so

once we leave we leave Machiavelli behind we

can think of a series of authors of

thinkers such as Hobbes and Locke

that were looking at how monarchy

worked in reality and we're saying: well

we have a problem "what do we do without

a monarch???" Hobbes asked himself and he

answered "well without a monarch there is

nobody guaranteeing that we're safe".

Someone can come, can come kill us

during the night, because there's no law

there's no police, there's no nothing and

so he was the first one who'd say well

basically we have a social contract with

the king just like we have a social

contract with our president or with our

mayor now, which basically says we accept

to be ruled by someone! We accept to have

a dominant political order above us in

exchange for being safe in exchange for

some services okay? And over time these

services will expand more and more

services, there are many things that we

ask the state to do now not only for

example fixing a hole in a road, but also

up to a point

education, healthcare, you all go to a

public university so you know what I'm

talking about okay? John Locke on the

other side followed Hobbes and took the

opposite conclusions he said yes we need

a state, but the state has to do very

little for us

because otherwise it violates our

personal freedom okay? so Locke in a way

he was an early libertarian, he was

saying the state has to be as small as

possible so that our personal liberties

our personal freedoms are not violated

okay? The other famous thinker that

followed Locke was Jean Jacques Rousseau

there is a lot on Rousseau in the book.

What do we have to remember about

Rousseau? We have to remember the fact

that Rousseau thought that humanity was

inherently good and he's the first one

to put an accent on inequality okay?

So he is one of the fathers of the

modern left okay? We is one of the

fathers of what would eventually become

socialism and American liberalism okay? he

says we need a government that follows

the will of the people okay?

Government and state have been created

by the rich to defend their own

interests, and they have not created to

do the interests of the poor and so the

poor have to take some power back we

need to fix the problem of inequality

Okay the table at the bottom of page 36

is actually useful to remember the main

concepts by Hobbes Locke and Rousseau. So

I think that you should take a look at

it, oh and by the way, just as a reminder,

you will have to use one of these

authors, and/or the authors that I'm gonna

talk about in just a second in your

first paper okay

so by the end of week 2 you're gonna

have to incorporate the ideas of one of

these thinkers okay? So that's why you

need to understand what the different

thinkers were like so that then you can

apply them and in particular what you

have to understand is the modernity of

these thinkers okay the way that they

use their own... that our own ideas are

used today and have influenced the way

that we perceive different ideologies

today okay?

For more infomation >> PS 111 Lioy - W19 - Week 1 - Second Video - Duration: 8:49.

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EDLD 611 Module 2 Video - Duration: 1:26.

Hi, welcome to Module 2.

If you are here you've probably survived Module 1 (or you're seeking refuge from it).

Unfortunately chapters that focus on learning theories are text heavy and there's just no

avoiding that.

Module 2 focuses on the past, present, and future of adult and continuing education.

The instructor content provides the history of adult and continuing ed.

The Tate, Klein-Collins, and Steinberg article will give you an overview of the field today

and the Walshok article will give you a sense of what is on the horizon.

In this module you'll also submit your first reflection.

You might want to access that activity and read the reflection prompt I've written

before you begin reading.

If you consider your reflection as you read you might have an easier time composing it

when it comes time to do so.

You'll notice that there is no reflection rubrics in the rubric module of the course.

That's because I like these activities to be a bit more free-flowing.

If you are thoughtful in your response, demonstrate graduate-level writing, and consider the content

- you will do fine.

I provide a lot of feedback on these early activities so you have the opportunity to

improve as the course progresses.

Thanks for watching!

See you online!