The age of faith to the age of reason
Contributors: Staloff, Darren, 1961-; Kors, Alan Charles; Dalton, Dennis; Teaching Company
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Great minds of the Western intellectual tradition -- pt. 2; SuperStar teachers; BKM 400 (NU course); EDA 617 (NU course)
Publisher: Teaching Company
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Springfield, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording]
Number of pages: 540
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Medieval Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Philosophy; History; Western Civilization
Description: Part 2 traces the progress of the Western mind in grappling with the fundamental questions that determine our stance toward being.  This section marks the critical schism between the claims of faith and science, beginning with the works of two saints, Aquinas and Thomas More.  The origins of modern scientific thought are traced, and concludes with by exploring the effects of the rise of science on philosophy.
Notes: Titles of lectures taken from the booklet.

Date on cassette labels and guide, c1997. Date in end credits, c1994.

Lecturers: Michael Sugrue, Darren M. Staloff, Alan Charles Kors, Dennis G. Dalton.

VHS.
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1. Aquinas and the scholastic synthesis / M. Sugrue; title: lecture 2. More's Utopia: reason and social justice / D. Staloff; title: lecture  3. Machiavelli's The Prince: political realism, political science / D. Staloff; title: lecture 4. Bacon's New Organon: the call for a new science / A. Kors; title: lecture 5. Descartes' epistemology and the mind-body problem / D. Staloff; title: lecture 6. Hobbes's Leviathan: of man / D. Dalton; title: lecture 7. Hobbes' Leviathan: of the commonwealth / D. Dalton; title: lecture 8. Spinoza's Ethics / D. Staloff; title: lecture 9. The Newtonian revolution / A.C. Kors; title: lecture 10. The early Enlightenment and the search for the laws of history: Vico's New science of history / D. Staloff; title: lecture 11. Pascal's Pensees / M. Sugrue; title: lecture 12. The philosophy of G. W. Leibniz.