Description
An investigation in to the historical content and philosophical underpinnings of the primarily European focus of philosophy that was prominent from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. The required readings will be from Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pica della Mirandola, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Francesco Petrarca, Leonardo da Vinci, Montaigne, Machiavelli, Copernicus, Galileo and many others. The period of the Renaissance will be studied as the philosophical child of both Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, focusing on the contributions of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoic and the Epicurean contributions; and the commentaries and additions to these contributions by Jewish, Arabic and Christian philosophers of the period.