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May 02, 2024
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Spring 2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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)
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