Social Foundations II
T03.0102.086, T03.0102.087, T03.0102.088, T03.0102.089
Credits: 4
Professor(s): Mr. H. Segal, Dr. C. Noel & Dr. A. Lever
Syllabus: Available to download soon
This course continues the examination of philosophic, religious, political, social, and historical ideas from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment and the revolutions of the 18th century. It studies the clash of ideas and values as the Renaissance and Reformation confront the medieval heritage, as science confronts religious cosmology, and as notions of liberty and equality confront traditional authority. Texts are chosen from among the major writers such as Petrarch, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Martin Luther and John Calvin, Galileo, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and the Federalists.