Recent SemestersSpring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022Class SizeNot publishedCredits3 Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionESL 188 The philosophical tradition from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Emphasis on new scientific models of human knowledge and human nature formulated in reaction to scientific and social revolutions. Positions of thinkers such as Descartes, Hume, Kant on basic questions: Can anything be known with certainty? Are there any justifiable moral principles? Is there any purpose to existence? UC/CSUUsually HeldMon Wed 9:10am–10:25am, Mon Wed Fri 9:10am–10:00am 