Description: Seminar, three hours. Course 173A is not requisite to 173B. Designed for College Honors students. Examination of great works of European thought from 17th through early 20th century, including works by Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Max Weber, with emphasis on intellectual foundations of liberal democracy and capitalism. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 5.0