Renaissance, seventeenth and eighteenth century thought
This third seminar can be taken in any of the 5 semesters following freshman year and covers 4 centuries of writers, including politicians, philosophers, playwrights and scientists.
Prerequisite: Seminar 21 or 121 - Roman, Early Christian, and Medieval Thought
Reading List:
- Fra Filippo Lippi, La Vergine Col Figlio
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Luther, On Christian Liberty
- Las Casas, selections from The Devastation of the Indies
- Cervantes, Don Quixote
- Shakespeare, King Lear
- Galileo, The Starry Messenger
- Descartes, Discourse on Method and the Meditations
- Hobbes, selections from Leviathan
- John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, The Answer/La Respuesta
- Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
- Adam Smith, selections from Wealth of Nations
- Voltaire, Candide
- Wollstonecraft, selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Jane Austen, Emma
