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ART I: Lecture 1- Introduction- Intellectual History and Conceptual Change; lecture 2- The Dawn of the 17th Century- Aristotelian Scholasticism; Lecture 3- The New Vision of Francis Bacon; Lecture 4- The New Astronomy and Cosmology; Lecture 5- Descartes's Dreamof Perfect Knowledge; lecture 6- The Specter of Thomas Hobbes; lecture 7: Skepticism and Jansenism- Blaise Pascal; lecture 8- Newton's Discovery; Lecture 9- The Newtonian Revolution; Lecture 10- John Locke- The Revolution in Knowledge; Lecture 11- The Lockean Moment; Lecture 12- Scepticism and Calvinism- Pierre Bayle. PART II: Lecture 13-The Moderns- The Generation of 1680-1715; Lecture 14- Introduction to Deism; Lecture 15- The Conflict Between Deism and Christianity; lecture 16- Montesquieu and the Problem of Relativism; Lecture 17- Voltaire- Bringing England to france; Lecture 18- Bishop Joseph Butler and God's Providence; Lecture 19- The Sceptical Challenge to Optimism- David Hume; Lecture 20- The Assault upon Philosophical optimism- Voltaire; Lecture 21- The Philosophes- The Triumph of French Enlightenment; Lecture 22- Beccaria and Enlightened Reform; Lecture 23- Rousseau's Dissent; lecture 24- Materialism and Naturalism- The Boundaries of the Enlightenment.