HI 208 - The Enlightenment

Credit Hours: 3

This seminar involves a close reading of original Enlightenment texts as intellectual history and a way of situating historical and contemporary understandings of freedom, the role of reason, self-determination, the individual and society. A critical evaluation of original texts and a study of eighteenth century kindling of self-conscious social thought and its influence on the rational organization of society and social institutions in the formative years of the modern natural and social sciences.
Prerequisites: Either HI 100, HI 109, HI 111, participation in the Honors program or permission of the instructor.
F/S (C, S)