PHIL350L - Renaissance Philosophy

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This course examines philosophy in the Renaissance. It will focus on Humanism and its critique of medieval Scholasticism, Florentine Platonism, Aristotelianism in the universities, as well as the new science and cosmology of the sixteenth century Italian natural philosophers. This class will discuss the nature of philosophy in the Renaissance and its relationship to its past, the problem of the immortality of the soul, natural magic, the origins and value of modern science, manuscript and print culture, and the relationship of the Renaissance philosophy to modern philosophy and science.

Prerequisite(s): PHIL 101L