Description
History of Thought I explores significant texts from the ancient world through the European Enlightenment. Intended to provide artists with a shared intellectual vocabulary and a solid historical platform for understanding contemporary issues, this first course in the History of Thought sequence includes the study of foundational figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Descartes, Rousseau, Hume, and Kant, contextualizes their thinking in the global history of ideas, and works towards a contemporary critique of their assumptions. History of Thought courses require intensive reading, writing, and discussion.