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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2011
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MLSC 530 001 (CRN: 25445)
17TH-18TH CENT WESTERN PHIL
Long Title: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS, MORALITY AND RELIGION IN 17TH-18TH CENTURIES WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
Department: School of Continuing Studies
Instructor: Jablecki, Larry
Meeting: 6:15PM - 9:30PM T (10-JAN-2011 - 28-MAR-2011)
Part of Term: MLS Winter Session
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 0 (permission required) Department Permission Required
Section Enrolled: 10
Enrollment data as of: 21-MAY-2024 3:49AM
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.