Odyssey of the West. IV a classic education through the great books. Toward Enlightenment (Modern scholar)
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Examines the literary and artistic works and world of thought that led to the Enlightenment. Full description
Table of Contents:
- lecture 1. Machiavelli : The Prince
- lecture 2. Northern humanism
- lecture 3. The northern Renaissance in art
- lecture 4. The Italian High Renaissance in art
- lecture 5. The Reformation
- lecture 6. Exploration, the Hapsburg Empire and the Catholic Reformation, the golden age of Spain
- lecture 7. The wars of religion and Montaigne
- lecture 8. Shakespeare : King Lear
- lecture 9. Shakespeare : The Tempest
- lecture 10. Bacon and Descartes
- lecture 11. The scientific revolution
- lecture 12. The Dutch golden age
- lecture 13. Thomas Hobbes : Leviathan
- lecture 14. John Locke : second treatise on government.