28.02.2024, 00:08
The origin of the modern mind [TTC Audio]
English | 1992 | 5 hrs and 55 mins | MP3 | 81 MB
Authors: Alan Charles Kors, Teaching Company
This course literally invites you to inhabit the mind of Europe before the rise of science and to experience the change in world-view that swept the continent in 'The Century of Genius' and changed the world forever.
Tape 1. Lecture 1. Aristotle and authority
lecture 2. Bacon and the call for a new science
lecture 3. Descartes' vision of perfect knowledge
lecture 4. God's mathematical order, the new cosmology
Tape 2. lecture 5. Locke's theory of knowledge
lecture 6. The Newtonian revolution
lecture 7. Learning and skepticism, Pascal and Bayle
lecture 8. The triumph of the moderns