Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS, MORALITY AND RELIGION IN 17TH-18TH CENTURIES WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Department: School of Continuing Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In the history of Western philosophy, the 17th-18th centuries are characterized as the Age of Enlightenment, during which scholars in all fields of knowledge were experiencing freedom from the centuries old yoke of religious authority. Human reason and the pursuit of knowledge dethroned the Christian teaching on the life of faith and biblical revelation. In this course we will focus on the modern mind, namely, Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant. Their views on knowledge, politics, morality and religion will be explained into he context of the climate of intellectual and religious opinion in which they lived. Department Permission Required.