HIST-226 History of European Thought
This survey covers currents of European cultural and intellectual history from 1300 to the present. On one hand, Europe’s outward-looking tendencies fostered overseas empires and destructive colonial regimes. On the other hand, its residents theorized and exported ideas of legal inclusion and liberalism, honed evidence-based reasoning that would become the scientific method, and bolstered an economic system that would connect global markets. Rapid socio-economic and technological change disrupted traditional systems and hierarchies in communities around the world, generating new ideas about personhood, wealth, nature, and the divine.
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