Units: 5
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; extra reading, 2 hours; term paper, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Explores the origins of the modern way of thinking about politics (i.e., liberalism in a sense that includes both conservatives and liberals) by the ancient and early modern skeptics such as Montaigne, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.
Credit: Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 122 or POSC 122S.