Rationalism Course
Enhance your understanding of Descartes, innate ideas, and rationalism whilst honing close reading, argumentation, and academic writing skills. Tailored for humanities scholars seeking to craft more incisive analytical essays and rigorous text-based arguments grounded in primary sources.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This concise Rationalism Course provides an intensive study of Descartes’s innate ideas, cogito argument, and clear and distinct perceptions, featuring close textual analysis of key excerpts. Learners will address traditional critiques from Locke and Hume, explore modern objections, and produce a refined analytical essay bolstered by thorough research, precise citations, and logical structure.
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Develop skills
- Analyse Descartes’s innate ideas through precise textual close reading.
- Apply clear and distinct perception to assess knowledge claims in the humanities.
- Critically compare rationalist and empiricist views on the origins of ideas.
- Structure a concise 1,200–1,800-word analytical paper with robust thesis support.
- Employ academic databases and citations to compile a high-quality bibliography.
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