IN THIS LESSON

  • We will identify the defining features of the Enlightenment with respect to epistemology, secularization and history.

  • We will study the importance of the Scientific Revolution and Naturalism, the doctrines of unilinear progress and evolution, and Geist.

READINGS

  • Ernst Haeckel, The Riddle of the Universe. “The Nature of the Problem” pages 1-21.

  • G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right. “World History” pages 266-272.

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