Early Modern Philosophy 2

The course is an intensive study, analysis and interpretation of key philosophical and some literary-philosophical texts of leading post-Cartesian thinkers, French materialists and European Enlightenment thinkers. Topics to be studied include: cultural history and philosophy in the period of Enlightenment; methodological links between 17thcentury rationalism and the French Enlightenment of the 18th century; the Enlightenment idea of the progress of the human spirit (Turgot, Condorcet); conjectural history as philosophical method (Condillac, Rousseau, the Scottish Enlightenment), the problem of the origin of language (Condillac, Rousseau); nature and culture in Diderot's and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia; philosophy of culture and theory of art in Diderot's Salons; Rousseau: nature and culture; ethics of the Enlightenment; science and humanism in European Enlightenment.

Required reading:
Condorcet, Očrt zgodovinske slike napredka človeškega duha, SH, Ljubljana 2016, str. 5-199. COBISS.SI-ID -287124480
D'Alembert, Uvod v Enciklopedijo, SH, Ljubljana 2009, str. 7-127. COBISS.SI-ID - 247017216
Diderot, D'Alembertove sanje, v: D'Alembertove sanje in drugi filozofski spisi, ZRC, Ljubljana 2010, str. 7-131. COBISS.SI-ID - 251907328
Rousseau, Esej o izvoru jezikov, Krtina, Ljubljana 1999, str. 7-72. COBISS.SI-ID - 100590848

Suggested reading:
Israel, J. Enlightenment Contested, OUP, Oxford 2006, str. 699-862.
Božovič, M., Diderotova filozofija materializma, Društvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, Ljubljana 2006, str. 7-162.
Cassirer, E. Filozofija razsvetljenstva, Študentska založba, Ljubljana 1998.