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Title:

Great minds of the Western intellectual tradition. Part 3, From the Renaissance to the age of reason [(DVD)videorecording].

Format:

[(DVD)videorecording].

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publisher:

Teaching Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (50 p. ; 22 cm.)

Subject:

Machiavelli, Niccol'o,--1469-1527--Criticism and interpretation.
More, Thomas,--Sir, Saint,--1478-1535--Criticism and interpretation.
Erasmus, Desiderius,--d. 1536.--Criticism and interpretation.
Galilei, Galileo,--1564-1642--Criticism and interpretation.
Bacon, Francis,--1561-1626--Criticism and interpretation.
Descartes, René,--1596-1650--Criticism and interpretation.
Hobbes, Thomas,--1588-1679--Criticism and interpretation.
Spinoza, Benedictus de,--1632-1677--Criticism and interpretation.
Pascal, Blaise,--1623-1662--Criticism and interpretation.
Bayle, Pierre,--1647-1706--Criticism and interpretation.
Newton, Isaac,--Sir,--1642-1727--Criticism and interpretation.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
Philosophy--History.
Civilization, Western--Philosophy.

Other Authors:

Staloff, Darren, 1961-
Adams, Jeremy.
Kors, Alan Charles.
Dalton, Dennis.
Teaching Company.

Notes:

Booklet (50 p.) includes list of lectures with scope and outline for each lecture. Lecturers: Darren M. Staloff, Jeremy Adams, Alan Charles Kors, and Dennis G. Dalton.

Contents:

Lecture 25. Introduction / D. Staloff -- Lecture 26. Machiavelli and the origins of political science / D. Staloff -- Lecture 27. More's Utopianism / D. Staloff -- Lecture 28. Erasmus against enthusiasm / J. Adams -- Lecture 29. Galileo and the new astronomy / A. Kors -- Lecture 30. Bacon's New Organon and the new science / A. Kors -- Lecture 31. Descartes: the method of modern philosophy / A. Kors -- Lecture 32. Hobbes: politics and the state of nature / D. Dalton -- Lecture 33. Spinoza: rationalism and the reverence for being / D. Staloff -- Lecture 34. Pascal: skepticism and Jansenism / A. Kors -- Lecture 35. Bayle: skepticism and Calvinism / A. Kors -- Lecture 36. Newton and Enlightened science / A. Kors.

Summary:

Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.

Series:

The great courses

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51845461

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)