Splash Biography
CARINA BAETE, ESP Teacher
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Major: Chemistry College/Employer: Princeton Year of Graduation: 2023 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)H724: What Is Enlightenment? in Splash 2023 (Apr. 22, 2023)
We will take a look at the major ideas and historical figures of a philosophical epoch that remains immensely influential in today's world, as reflected in the structure of governmental & legal institutions, scientific practices, and the rise of individualism. We will also examine the problematic legacy of the age of enlightenment, and how its ideas were crucial to the development of imperialist and totalitarian ideologies of the 19th and 20th century. Authors to be discussed will include Kant, Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu & Adorno
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