HIST415 - 17C INTELLECT HISTORY

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST415 - 17C INTELLECT HISTORY
Term
2015C
Syllabus
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST415401
Meeting times
TR 1200PM-0130PM
Meeting location
COLLEGE HALL 318
Instructors
KORS, ALAN
Description
A survey based soley on primary sources of the main currents of seventeenth-century European thought: the criticism of inherited systems and of the authority of the past; skepticism, rationalism; empiricism; and the rise of the new natural philosophy. We will study deep conceptual change as an historical phenomenon, examining works that were both profoundly influential in the seventeehtn-century and that are of enduring historical significance. There are no prerequisites, and one of the goals of the course is to make seventeenth-century thought accessible in its context to the twenty-first century student.
Course number only
415
Cross listings
COML419401
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled