The birth of the modern mind [videorecording] : an intellectual history of the 17th and 18th century / Alan Charles Kors.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 447 | Teaching Company445--446 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD)Publication details: [Springfield, Va.] : Teaching Co., [2003]Description: 4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1565857283 :
Other title:
  • Intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DVD B801 .K67 2003
Contents:
disc 1. lecture 1. Introduction, intellectual history and conceptual change ; lecture 2. The dawn of the 17th century, Aristotelian scholasticism ; lecture 3. The new vision of Francis Bacon ; lecture 4. The new astronomy and cosmology ; lecture 5. Descartes's dream of perfect knowledge ; lecture 6. The specter of Thomas Hobbes -- disc 2. lecture 7. Skepticism and Jansenism, Blaise Pascal ; lecture 8. Newton's discovery ; lecture 9. The Newtonian revolution ; lecture 10. John Locke, the revolution in knowledge ; lecture 11. The Lockean moment ; lecture 12. Skepticism and Calvanism, Pierre Bayle.
disc 3. lecture 13. The moderns, the generation of 1680-1715 ; lecture 14. Introduction to Deism ; lecture 15. The 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. The skeptical challenge to optimism, David Hume ; lecture 20. The assault upon philosophical optimism, Voltaire ; lecture 21. The 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.
Lecturer: Alan Charles Kors.Summary: 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 Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment.
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DVD Storms Research Center DVD Collection DVD B 801 .K67 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Part 1, Disc 1-2. 98625958
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DVD Storms Research Center DVD Collection DVD B 801 .K67 2003 GDBK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .CIRCNOTE. Accompanying guidebook inside dvd case. | .PUBLIC. Accompanying guidebook Pt. 1. 98645431
DVD Storms Research Center DVD Collection DVD B 801 .K67 2003 GDBK PT.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .CIRCNOTE. Accompanying guidebook inside dvd case. | .PUBLIC. Accompanying guidebook Pt. 2. 98645434

disc 1. lecture 1. Introduction, intellectual history and conceptual change ; lecture 2. The dawn of the 17th century, Aristotelian scholasticism ; lecture 3. The new vision of Francis Bacon ; lecture 4. The new astronomy and cosmology ; lecture 5. Descartes's dream of perfect knowledge ; lecture 6. The specter of Thomas Hobbes -- disc 2. lecture 7. Skepticism and Jansenism, Blaise Pascal ; lecture 8. Newton's discovery ; lecture 9. The Newtonian revolution ; lecture 10. John Locke, the revolution in knowledge ; lecture 11. The Lockean moment ; lecture 12. Skepticism and Calvanism, Pierre Bayle.

disc 3. lecture 13. The moderns, the generation of 1680-1715 ; lecture 14. Introduction to Deism ; lecture 15. The 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. The skeptical challenge to optimism, David Hume ; lecture 20. The assault upon philosophical optimism, Voltaire ; lecture 21. The 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.

Lecturer: 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 Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the modern mind and The mind of the enlightenment.

DVD, region 1.

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