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The birth of the modern mind. Part 1 : The intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries / University of Pennsylvania ; Alan Charles Kors.
LIBRA DVD 019 472 discs 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD 019 475 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history
- Great courses ; No. 447
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Philosophy, Modern--18th century.
- Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Europe.
- Intellectual life.
- Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Philosophy and religion.
- Genre:
- Educational films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (64 pages ; 22 cm).
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries
- Place of Publication:
- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [1998]
- System Details:
- DVD; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800, a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. 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.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. 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. Disc 2. 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.
- Participant:
- Lecturer, Alan Charles Kors.
- Notes:
- "Philosophy & Intellectual history".-- Container subtitle.
- ISBN:
- 1565857283
- OCLC:
- 75956322
- Publisher Number:
- 9791565857284
- PD447-01 Teaching Co.
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