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The birth of the modern mind an intellectual history of the 17th & 18th Centuries /

Presents twenty-four lectures that focus "on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800--a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still."

Main Author: Kors, Alan Charles.
Other Authors: Teaching Company.
Format: Cassette
Language: English
Published: Springfield, VA : Teaching Co., [1998]
Physical Description: 12 audiocassettes (approximately 720 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Series: Great courses on tape (Audiocassette)
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
Philosophy and religion.
Summary: Presents twenty-four lectures that focus "on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800--a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still."
Item Description: Lecturer: Alan Kors.
"This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment"--Container.
In two containers (26 cm.).
Presents twenty-four lectures that focus "on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800--a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still."
lecture 1. Introduction : intellectual history and conceptual change -- lecture 2. The dawn of the 17th century : Aristotelian scholasticism -- lecture 3. The new vision of Francis Bacon -- lecture 4. The new astronomy and cosmology -- lecture 5. Descartes's dream of perfect knowledge -- lecture 6. The specter of Thomas Hobbes -- lecture 7. Skepticism and Jansenism : Blaise Pascal -- lecture 8. Newton's discovery -- lecture 9. The Newtonian revolution -- lecture 10. John Locke, the revolution in knowledge -- lecture 11. The Lockean moment -- lecture 12. Skepticism and Calvanism : Pierre Bayle -- lecture 13. The moderns, the generation of 1680-1715 -- lecture 14. Introduction to deism -- lecture 15. The conflict between deism and Christianity -- lecture 16. Montesquieu and the problem of relativism -- lecture 17. Voltaire, bringing England to France -- lecture 18. Bishop Joseph Butler and God's providence -- lecture 19. The skeptical challenge to optimism, David Hume -- lecture 20. The assault upon philosophical optimism, Voltaire -- lecture 21. The philosophies : the triumph of the French Enlightenment -- lecture 22. Beccaria and enlightened reform -- lecture 23. Rousseau's dissent -- lecture 24. Materialism and naturalism, the boundaries of the Enlightenment.
Physical Description: 12 audiocassettes (approximately 720 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
ISBN: 1565851072 :

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