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The birth of the modern mind. Part 2 : The intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries / University of Pennsylvania ; Alan Charles Kors.
LIBRA DVD 019 475 disc 3-4 + booklet
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD 019 473 discs 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 (73 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 3: 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. Disc 4: Lecture 19. The skeptical challenge to optimism, David Hume
- Lecture 20. The assault upon philosophical optimism, Voltaire
- Lecture 21. The Philosophes, 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.
- Participant:
- Lecturer, Alan Charles Kors.
- Notes:
- "Philosophy & Intellectual history."-- Container subtitle.
- ISBN:
- 1565857283
- OCLC:
- 318193714
- Publisher Number:
- 9791565857284
- PD447-01 Teaching Co.
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