The Canon - a brief survey
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.