Wish the course would provide a framework within which essays ought to be written. For ex: One of my essays got marked as "plagiarised" because I didn't cite my sources. The thing is, I have never written academic essays after high school. I didn't even know there are supposed to be citations, or that there are different ways to go about them.

This course, as well as part 2, is a great opportunity to put things in order. Modernity, the Enlightenment, shaped our present and the course does a great job in acquainting with the basic thinkers of this period. My only improvement proposal is to make access to texts easier by providing handouts in e-book format.

Interesting and well presented course. Big thanks to professor Roth. However, some of the links provided for souce material failed to work and/or came up with a notice of "page not found". Also had to wait about a week to recieve my final grade which caused me a lot of stress. If not for that, I'd rate 5 stars.

Prof. Roth has covered a great many schools of philosophical thought...which, in turn, as driven me to look up more information out of curiosity. He takes an often-difficult course of study, and makes it not only easier, but makes it enjoyable.

Hey,

Was a learning course. Ben learned more about the treatment time. I simultaneously following a different course on art: Gogh History of Impressionism which was about the same period.

Regards Frank Terpoorten

Great course. As stated in the title this is very much a part one and lays the foundations for the topic by looking at the enlightenment and build up to modernity, which are covered in more detail in part 2.

Very interesting lectures. I found this to be a very good learning opportunity. The professor has a very good grasp of his topic.

The presentation of Kant's philosophy is quite inaccurate. All in all, though, this is a great course!

One of the amazing tutor I came across, was totally immersed by the lectures.

Excellent content and lectures. Expectations for writing assignments unclear.

The peers review assignments were challenging. Be warned....

Great course! Writing assignments were really helpful.

Fascinating overview of what 'Modern' might mean.

Очень плохой автоматический перевод

nice

though the flow of ideologies eventually became distinguishable, the comments on the several artists and philosophers noted were woefully uninformed and inadequate, even distorted, and the professor's eventual humming and hawing, irritating in the extreme, suggested that he was not at all prepared for his lectures - the final presentation of paintings without commentary at all was thus both a relief from his indecision and, at all of twenty minutes, an outrageous waste of time having left all of these however masterful works without any appreciable context

On scientific and philosophical reflections there are unbalanced focusing and biased approach to Enlightenment tradition of thoughts and Utilitarions views in particular, on the very contrary to what Prof. Shapiro explains in his MOOC "Moral Foundations of Politics".

通識向，入門級，科普西方現代性，教授人很可愛，但是講話經常有結巴，相比之下在耶魯的mooc會是我更喜歡的風格。脈絡不是很統一，尤其是從理論學說突然轉變成詳細介紹福樓拜小說，現代性思想的變更是著重於理論的，突然好幾課著重介紹小說文本本身的句子有多美，我覺得欠考慮，著重其帶來的思想意義和社會變革比較符合課程的核心。

It's a little annoying, because the videos are the same all the time... but the professor is very good, he knows so much about filosofy!

Only average. Much is said, little information delivered.

Interesting start to week 1, looking forward to week 2.

Only one star as it was not made clear you could also get 1/5 points in assignments noted as ties but no further explanation. I don't think I will bother with part 2

very bad