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Class Schedule:
Week 5
Tuesday,
February 17
Food
for Thought
Topic of
Discussion:
The Scientific
Revolution and the Enlightenment
Readings:
Marvin
Perry, Western Civilization: A Brief History (2001)
Excerpts
from John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (1690)
Immanuel
Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
Thursday,
February 19
Food
for Thought
Topic of
Discussion:
The Absolutist
State
Readings:
Parker,
pp. 164-185
Excerpts
from Frederick the Great, Works (c. 1770)
Excerpts
from John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe from the Renaissance
to the Present (1996)
Louis XIV,
Memoirs for the Instruction of the Dauphin (ca. 1670)
Web Gallery:
The
Absolutist Army
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