Rationalism Course
Enhance your understanding of Descartes, innate ideas, and rationalism while honing close reading, argumentation, and writing skills. Tailored for humanities professionals seeking sharper analytical essays and rigorous text-based reasoning. This course provides focused study of key rationalist concepts alongside practical exercises in textual analysis and academic writing.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This concise Rationalism Course delves into Descartes’s innate ideas, the cogito, and clear and distinct perception through intensive close reading and textual analysis. Study pivotal passages, review objections from Locke and Hume, explore modern critiques, and craft a refined analytical paper with solid research, precise citations, and logical arguments.
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- Analyse Descartes’s innate ideas using precise, text-based close reading.
- Apply clear and distinct perception to assess knowledge claims in humanities.
- Critically compare rationalist and empiricist views on the origin of ideas.
- Structure a concise 1,200–1,800 word analytical paper with robust thesis support.
- Utilise academic databases and citations for a high-quality bibliography.
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