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Title:

Great minds of the Western intellectual tradition. Part 4, The Enlightenment and its critics [(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 (60 p. ; 22 cm.)

Subject:

Locke, John,--1632-1704--Criticism and interpretation.
Vico, Giambattista,--1668-1744--Criticism and interpretation.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat,--baron de,--1689-1755--Criticism and interpretation.
Mandeville, Bernard,--1670-1733.--Criticism and interpretation.
Berkeley, George,--1685-1753.--Criticism and interpretation.
Hume, David,--1711-1776.--Criticism and interpretation.
Smith, Adam,--1723-1790--Criticism and interpretation.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,--1712-1778--Criticism and interpretation.
Philosophy--History.
Enlightenment.
Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
Philosophy, Modern--18th century
Civilization, Western--Philosophy.
Empiricism.
Scientism.
Consequentialism (Ethics)
Idealism
Materialism
Rationalism.
Nominalism

Other Authors:

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

Notes:

Booklet (60 p.) includes list of lectures with scope and outline for each lecture. Lecturers: Alan Charles Kors, Dennis G. Dalton, Darren M. Staloff, and Jeremy Shearmur.

Contents:

Lecture 37. Introduction / A. Kors -- Lecture 38. Locke: politics / D. Dalton -- Lecture 39. Locke: the revolution in knowledge / A. Kors -- Lecture 40. Vico and the new science of history / D. Staloff -- Lecture 41. Montesquieu and political thought / A. Kors -- Lecture 42. The worldly philosophy of Bernard Mandeville / D. Staloff -- Lecture 43. Bishop Berkeley: idealism and critique of the Enlightenment / D. Staloff -- Lecture 44. Hume's epistemology / D. Staloff -- Lecture 45. Hume's theory of morality / D. Staloff -- Lecture 46. Hume's natural religion / A. Kors -- Lecture 47. Adam Smith and the origins of political economy / J. Shearmur -- Lecture 48. Rousseau's Dissent / A. Kors.

Summary:

Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.

Series:

The great courses

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51849166

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)