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The birth of the modern mind : the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries /

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In twenty-four lectures (each 30 minutes in length), Professor Alan Charles Kors 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 Ko...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Teaching Company
Other Authors: Kors, Alan Charles
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [1998]
Series:Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern > 17th century.
Philosophy, Modern > 18th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Philosophy and religion.
Educational films.
Nonfiction films.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1. Introduction, intellectual history and conceptual change ; Lecture 2. Dawn of the 17th century, Aristotelian scholasticism ; Lecture 3. New vision of Francis Bacon ; Lecture 4. New astronomy and cosmology ; Lecture 5. Descartes's dream of perfect knowledge ; Lecture 6. Specter of Thomas Hobbes
  • Disc 2. Lecture 7. Skepticism and Jansenism, Blaise Pascal ; Lecture 8. Newton's discovery ; Lecture 9. Newtonian revolution ; Lecture 10. John Locke, the revolution in knowledge ; Lecture 11. Lockean moment ; Lecture 12. Skepticism and Calvanism, Pierre Bayle.
  • Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13. Moderns, the generation of 1680-1715 ; Lecture 14. Introduction to Deism ; Lecture 15. 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. Skeptical challenge to optimism, David Hume ; Lecture 20. Assault upon philosophical optimism, Voltaire ; Lecture 21. 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.