PHIL 307:Rationalism
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Addresses the legacy of the seventeenth century European Enlightenment and its antecedents in the Abbasid Empire, when the reliance upon the individual’s systematic reasoning to understand the world took precedence over appeal to authority of ancient texts. The seminal influences of Ibn Al-Haythem, René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, Spinoza and others will be introduced.