An edition of The age of faith to the age of reason (1997)

The age of faith to the age of reason

2nd ed.

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The age of faith to the age of reason
Michael Sugrue, Michael Sugrue
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An edition of The age of faith to the age of reason (1997)

The age of faith to the age of reason

2nd ed.

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Part 2 traces the progress of the Western mind in grappling with the fundamental questions that determine our stance toward being. This section marks the critical schism between the claims of faith and science, beginning with the works of two saints, Aquinas and Thomas More. The origins of modern scientific thought are traced, and concludes with by exploring the effects of the rise of science on philosophy.

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Teaching Company
Language
English
Pages
540

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Subjects

Criticism and interpretation, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, History, Western Civilization

People

Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274), Thomas More Saint (1478-1535), Niccolo? Machiavelli (1469-1527), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Rene? Descartes (1596-1650), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716)

Times

17th century
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The age of faith to the age of reason
1997, Teaching Company
videorecording in English - 2nd ed.

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Table of Contents

Lecture 1. Aquinas and the scholastic synthesis / M. Sugrue
lecture 2. More's Utopia: reason and social justice / D. Staloff
lecture 3. Machiavelli's The Prince: political realism, political science / D. Staloff
lecture 4. Bacon's New Organon: the call for a new science / A. Kors
lecture 5. Descartes' epistemology and the mind-body problem / D. Staloff
lecture 6. Hobbes's Leviathan: of man / D. Dalton
lecture 7. Hobbes' Leviathan: of the commonwealth / D. Dalton
lecture 8. Spinoza's Ethics / D. Staloff
lecture 9. The Newtonian revolution / A.C. Kors
lecture 10. The early Enlightenment and the search for the laws of history: Vico's New science of history / D. Staloff
lecture 11. Pascal's Pensees / M. Sugrue
lecture 12. The philosophy of G. W. Leibniz.

Edition Notes

Titles of lectures taken from the booklet.

Date on cassette labels and guide, c1997. Date in end credits, c1994.

Lecturers: Michael Sugrue, Darren M. Staloff, Alan Charles Kors, Dennis G. Dalton.

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Springfield, VA
Series
Great minds of the Western intellectual tradition -- pt. 2, SuperStar teachers, BKM 400 (NU course), EDA 617 (NU course)

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[videorecording]
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2 videocassettes (540 min.)
Number of pages
540

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OL47075248M
OCLC/WorldCat
38293648

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