Nov 26, 2024  
Workforce Development & Community Education - Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 - NON-CREDIT CATALOG 
    
Workforce Development & Community Education - Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 - NON-CREDIT CATALOG

CE-COLGM 2062 - Thomas Paine and Rights of Man



Leader: Gary Berton, founder and retired Coordinator of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona University, and President of the Thomas Paine National Historical Association Thomas Paine is the most important political philosopher in modern history and the last of the great Enlightenment thinkers. This course will begin with an updated biographical sketch including newly researched findings, and then lead into how Rights of Man formed the manifesto of the age of democratic revolutions, an age we are still living in. Along the way, we will correct the misinformation that plagues Paine’s life and works, and explore how his works, including a greatly expanded corpus, still shed light on the obstacles to democratic implementation.

Location Valhalla