The aim of the PHIL 320b is to explore the philosophical foundations of market society’s implicit commitment to individual liberty and individual responsibility. What are the natures of economic, psychological, moral, and political freedom? Is it harder to have one if you don't have the others?
Most of the texts for this course are available on the web. I especially thank Liberty Fund's incredible On Line Library for access to these texts.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1909 ed.)
John Locke, Second Treatise (1824 ed.)
David Hume, Treatise (Book III, 1828 ed.)
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (vol. 1, listed under Glasgow ed., vol. 2)
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (Glasgow ed. vol. 2)
Frederic Bastiat, "What is Seen and What Is Unseen"
Karl Marx, "Alienated Labor"
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1879 ed.)
Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism"
Martin Luther King (audio and text of "I have a dream")
Legal History of Women in the United States