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Document Coursework 1, Knowledge

Coursework sheet that accompanies the reading for the second meeting.

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Document Coursework 2, Ideas

Coursework sheet that accompanies the reading for the third meeting.

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Document Coursework 3, Substance

Coursework sheet that accompanies the reading for the fourth meeting.

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Document Coursework 5, Mind and Body

Coursework sheet that accompanies the reading for the sixth meeting.

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Document Coursework 6, Freedom

Coursework sheet that accompanies the reading for the seventh meeting.

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Document Handout 1, Biographical Overview

Selective and brief biographical overview of the period between 1596 and 1716. The lives of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.

Rationalism, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz view
Document Handout 10, Mind and Body: Spinoza and Leibniz

Spinoza's parallelism and identity theory explained; Leibniz's theory of concomitance sketched.

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Document Handout 11, Freedom and Determinism

Sketches of indifference and spontaneity, absolute and hypothetical necessity, and self-empowerment.

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Document Handout 14, Politics: Justifying the State

Sketches of some key political ideas by Hobbes, Spinoza and Leibniz.

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Document Handout 2, Rationalism: Four Distinctive Features

Some key characteristics of early modern rationalism explained, and illustrated with extracts.

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