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. |
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| Other Authors: | Teaching Company. |
| Format: | Cassette |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Springfield, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[1998]
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| Physical Description: |
12 audiocassettes (approximately 720 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.) |
| Series: |
Great courses on tape (Audiocassette)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.