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This intensive course provides a critical overview of themes from 17th-century philosophy from Descartes to Berkeley. It covers issues regarding the nature of the material and immaterial substances, the existence of God and theodicy, attitudes regarding animals and other living organisms, sense perception, imagination, and moral issues concerning free will and determinism, etc.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: Open Culture
Course Curriculum
Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution | 00:47:00 | ||
Descartes’ influence1650-1750 | 00:39:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditation 1: reasons for doubting things | 00:49:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditation 3: proving that God exists | 00:50:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditation 4: proving the reliability of our intellect | 00:50:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditation 5: a new ontological argument | 00:49:00 | ||
Module:01 | |||
Descartes’ Meditation 6: proving that mind and matter exists | 00:51:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditation 6: proving that mind and matter exists | 00:51:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditations: the scientific aim (the Preface) | 00:49:00 | ||
Descartes’ Meditations: the scientific aim (the Preface) | 00:49:00 | ||
Francis Bacon and the Scientific Revolution | 00:51:00 | ||
Galileo and the Scientific Revolution | 00:51:00 | ||
Module:02 | |||
Leibniz’s Discourse of Metaphysics, part 5: the foreknowledge problem outlined | 00:48:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Discourse of Metaphysics, part 6: the foreknowledge problem solved | 00:51:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Discourse of Metaphysics, part 7: the world of phenomena is ideal | 00:49:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics, part 1: God’s perfection | 00:47:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics, part 2: the world’s perfection | 00:50:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics, part 3: the supreme value of minds | 00:51:00 | ||
Module:03 | |||
Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics, part 4: minds and haecceities | 00:50:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics, part 8: a religious conclusion | 00:56:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Monadology, part 1: the foundational principles of reason | 00:55:00 | ||
Leibniz’s Monadology, part 2: God’s existence | 00:51:00 | ||
Spinoza’s Ethics 1: definitions, axioms, and the general picture | 00:53:00 | ||
Spinoza’s Ethics 2: proving there is only one substance | 00:52:00 | ||
Module:04 | |||
Spinoza’s Ethics 3: no purpose, no free will, no good, no evi | 00:50:00 | ||
Spinoza’s influence up to the French Revolution | 00:50:00 | ||
Spinoza’s Tractatus 1: ideas on religion | 00:50:00 | ||
Spinoza’s Tractatus 2: ideas on politics | 00:49:00 | ||
Universities and the Scientific Revolution | 00:46:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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