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Foundations of Western Culture II: Renaissance to Modernity

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.002-2
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2003English
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This subject offers a broad survey of texts (both literary and philosophical) drawn from the Western tradition and selected to trace the growth of ideas about the nature of mankind’s ethical and political life in the West since the renaissance. It will deal with the change in perspective imposed by scientific ideas, the general loss of a supernatural or religious perspective upon human events, and the effects for good or ill of the increasing authority of an intelligence uninformed by religion…

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