Great Works I: on the Natural and Social Sciences

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First year Honors School students will be introduced to a sampling of the classic works that have come to define the natural and social sciences. Through an integration of some of the classics of the ancient and medieval (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Cicero, Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Augustine, Galileo, Ibn-Rushd) with those of the modern (Machiavelli, Bacon, Newton, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Pascal, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Skinner, Marx, Smith, Keynes, Hayek, Wollstonecraft, Butler, Carson), Honors students will gain insight into the foundation of what has become known as the natural and social sciences. Without a strong understanding of Plato's views on justice, Darwin's views on evolution, Skinner's views on behavior, Marx's conceptions of alienation, and/or Butler's views on sexuality, students' understanding of the social and natural sciences will be incomplete. For Honors Students only.