History 5089 - Advanced History of Ideas in the West

Institution:

University of Missouri-St Louis

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An examination of some of the most important ideas and debates that shaped the Western world. Topics include Platonic versus Aristotelian models of the universe, Medieval synthesis and the challenge of Renaissance Naturalism, the Scientific Revolution, the political ideas of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Romanticism, Marxism, Darwinian evolution, Freudian psychology, existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umsl.edu/

Phone Number:

(314) 516-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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