Week 8 Walden Two


 

 

October 6 - 10

Monday.

· Summerhill School: Schooling and Education reconsidered

· Thoreau’s Walden

 

Tuesday.

· Elements of the utopian vision &

· The Preamble to the Constitution (below)

· Nudge & Trayless Tuesdays

· Social engineering in tension with natural law

 

Wednesday.

· Walden Two: What changes do we think we need to make in our society? What are the sources of these problems?

 

Thursday. Yom Kippur.

 

Friday.

·Walden Two: “Economic man” as the underlying cause of human unhappiness

· Can Walden Two’s structure solve some of our problems? Would you like to live in Walden Two?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.