Course # 404II: Great Books of the Modern Era

Course Objective: To familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the great books written in the  modern era, from Kant through Einstein, which are most influential in the ongoing dialogue of Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles and authors studied). Authors of the works studied this semester include: Kant, Goethe, Hegel, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Smith, Marx, Lincoln, Thoreau, Twain, Darwin, Orwell, Einstein, Cather.