Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Teaching Company (1992), 2 8 lectures, 45 minutes each
Language
Original language
English
Local notes
precursor to "The Birth of the Modern Mind". [1] Aristotle and authority. [2] Bacon and the call for a new science. [3] Descartes' vision of perfect knowledge. [4] God's mathematical order, the new cosmology. [5] Locke's theory of knowledge. [6] The Newtonian revolution. [7] Learning and skepticism, Pascal and Bayle. [8] The triumph of the moderns