Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; one term paper
Catalog page 385
Prerequisites: upper-division standing
Description: Explores the origins of the modern way of thinking about politics (i.e., liberalism, in a sense that includes both conservatives and liberals) in the ancient skeptics and in early modern skeptics such as Montaigne, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.