ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM (HUM 2234): COURSE OUTLINE

UNIT I: THE ORIGIN OF MODERN SCIENCE

• The Displacement of Geocentrism: Nicolaus Copernicus
• The Condemnation of Copernicus
• Johann Kepler and Galileo Galilei: The Copernican Revolution
• The Scientific Method and Its Architects: Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
• Issac Newton and the Clockwork Model
• Blaise Pascal and the Reconciliation of Science and Religion

UNIT II: THE AGE OF REASON

• The Politics of John Locke
• Voltaire and the Rebellion Against Tradition
• Rosseau: Advocate of the Common Man
• Montesquieu and the Foundation of Political Freedom
• Jefferson and the American Democratic Experiment

UNIT III: THE RISE OF IDEALISM

• Condorcet and the Stages of Human Development
• Adam Smith and the Politics of Economics
• The Liberalism of John Stuart Mill
• Hegel, Marx, and Engels: A Radical View of History

UNIT IV: THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

• The Romantic Movement and Its Poetry
• Neoclassical Art
• From Beethoven to Lizst
• Freud and Jung: Beyond the Id
• Dostoevsky and Sartre: Beyond Reason
• Nietzsche, Lenin, and Hitler: The Politics of Power