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PHIL216 The Enlightenment

10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Philosophy unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.

The unit will examine the sources and main features of the eighteenth-century intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment. It will concentrate, first, on central themes of the movement, such as the impact of the new forms of natural science on conceptions of human nature and values and their implications for religion and traditional authority; and, secondly, on its historical impact, for example in beginning such distinctively modern social sciences as sociology and economics. Attention may also be given to the contemporary debates about the nature of Enlightenment itself.

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