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The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

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12 hours 35 minutes
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Learn about the age of Newton, Descartes, Pascal, Locke, Rousseau, and more from one of world’s leading intellectual historians.

Syllabus

01: Introduction—Intellectual History and Conceptual Change
02: The Dawn of the 17th Century—Aristotelian Scholasticism
03: The New Vision of Francis Bacon
04: The New Astronomy and Cosmology
05: Descartes's Dream of Perfect Knowledge
06: The Specter of Thomas Hobbes
07: Skepticism and Jansenism—Blaise Pascal
08: Newton's Discovery
09: The Newtonian Revolution
10: John Locke—The Revolution in Knowledge
11: The Lockean Moment
12: Skepticism and Calvinism—Pierre Bayle
13: The Moderns—The Generation of 1680-1715
14: Introduction to Deism
15: The Conflict Between Deism and Christianity
16: Montesquieu and the Problem of Relativism
17: Voltaire—Bringing England To France
18: Bishop Joseph Butler and God's Providence
19: The Skeptical Challenge to Optimism—David Hume
20: The Assault upon Philosophical Optimism—Voltaire
21: The Philosophes—The Triumph of the French Enlightenment
22: Beccaria and Enlightened Reform
23: Rousseau's Dissent
24: Materialism & Naturalism—The Boundaries of the Enlightenment
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Alan Charles Kors

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