Western Culture 4-3: The Enlightenment - My Compass Classroom

Age: 14+ Middle School, High School Half Credit

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Lesson 1: Introduction: What is the Enlightenment? 1 Step Sample Lesson

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Lecture 1: Introduction: What is the Enlightenment? (36 min video)

Lesson 2: The Scientific Revolution: An Overview 1 Step

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Lecture 2: The Scientific Revolution: An Overview (47 min video)

Lesson 3: Galileo Moves the Earth 1 Step

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Lecture 3: Galileo Moves the Earth (38 min video)

Lesson 4: The Galileo Affair 1 Step

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Lecture 4: The Galileo Affair (43 min video)

Lesson 5: Descartes & Skepticism 1 Step

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Lecture 5: Descartes & Skepticism (41 min video)

Lesson 6: Descartes’ Search for Certainty 1 Step

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Lecture 6: Descartes’ Search for Certainty (38 min video)

Lesson 7: Did Descartes Succeed? 1 Step

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Lecture 7: Did Descartes Succeed? (27 min video)

Lesson 8: Descartes & the Scientific Revolution 1 Step

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Lecture 8: Descartes & the Scientific Revolution (38 min video)

Lesson 9: Isaac Newton Takes the Throne 1 Step

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Lecture 9: Isaac Newton Takes the Throne (45 min video)

Lesson 10: Hume: Taking Skepticism Seriously 1 Step

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Lecture 10: Hume: Taking Skepticism Seriously (43 min video)

Lesson 11: Kant’s Answer to Hume 1 Step

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Lecture 11: Kant’s Answer to Hume (49 min video)

Lesson 12: Thomas Reid & Genuine Enlightenment 1 Step

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Lecture 12: Thomas Reid & Genuine Enlightenment (43 min video)

About Instructor

Mitch Stokes

Dr. Stokes (PhD, Notre Dame) is a senior fellow of philosophy at New St. Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho. In addition to studying philosophy under world-renowned philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Stokes holds degrees in philosophy, religion and mechanical engineering, and holds five patents in aeroderivative gas turbine technology. He is the author of Calculus for Everyone (Roman Roads Press), books on apologetics, and biographies of Newton and Galileo.

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