Enlightenment Courses and Certifications

What was the Enlightenment? Reason, Revolt, and Philosophy (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Explore the bold ideas and fierce debates that shaped the Enlightenment, a transformative era of reason, revolution, and intellectual upheaval.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

The Enlightenment

4 ratings at OpenLearn

The free course will examine the Enlightenment. To help understand the nature and scale of the cultural changes of the time, we offer a 'map' of the conceptual territory and the intellectual and ...

• OpenLearn
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere - European Civilization 1648-1945

Explores how France’s Enlightenment public sphere and popular press eroded monarchical authority before the Revolution.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

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

157 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

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

• The Great Courses Plus
• 12 hours 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Counter-Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Critique of Reason (Live Online)

40 ratings at CourseHorse

Examine influential critiques of Enlightenment ideals through close readings of foundational philosophical texts.

• CourseHorse
• Self-Paced
• $355.00

The Burkean Outlook - Edmund Burke's Anti-Enlightenment Philosophy

Examines Edmund Burke’s cautious conservatism, inherited rights, and binding social contract as a rejection of Enlightenment reason and individualism.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Mediterranean, a Space of Exchange (from the Renaissance to Enlightenment)

228 ratings at Coursera

Explore the Mediterranean as a historical space shaped by the movement of people, objects, ideas, and practices from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

David Hume

7 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, David Hume, examines Hume's reasons for being complacent in the face of death, as these are laid out in his suppressed essay of 1755, 'Of the immortality of the soul'. More ...

• OpenLearn
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

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Operationalizing GCP's Asset Inventory for Cloud Enlightenment - Using CLARITY for Improved Cloud Management

Discover how to leverage GCP's Cloud Asset Inventory through CLARITY for enhanced cloud awareness, faster incident response, and optimized resource management in security operations.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Understanding Modernity - Ideas and Origins in the European Context - Lecture 8

Explore the concept of modernity and its intellectual foundations within European historical development and cultural transformation.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Print Capitalism and the Making of Nation States

Explore how print capitalism contributed to the disintegration of dynastic rule and the emergence of nation states, building on Enlightenment and revolutionary movements in Europe.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Origins of the Nation - Western Foundations and Influences

Explore the historical factors that gave birth to the concept of nationhood in Western civilization and its foundational influences.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

The Rise of the Novel - Part 2: Realism, Newton, and Locke's Influence

Explore how Newton and Locke's ideas influenced social ideology and shaped literary realism through the analysis of Robinson Crusoe's groundbreaking narrative techniques.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

西方哲学II：近代部分

系统梳理从文艺复兴、早期近代哲学到康德、费希特、谢林和黑格尔的西方近代哲学发展。

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

French Revolution

This free course provides basic historical background to the French Revolution. It will show that the Revolution accelerated intellectual, cultural and psychological change, and opened up new ...

• OpenLearn
• 16 hours
• No Longer Offered
• Free Certificate