This course explores the origins of social thinking in primitive ancient eras, and the development of such thinking among the ancient Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, and Indian civilizations. In addition to the aforementioned, this course explores social thinking during the Middle Ages of Christian Europe, and social thinking of Muslims. This courses explores social thinking during the renaissance and the age of enlightenment in Europe, and discusses the concept of social contract, a concept set by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, as well as the impact of the industrial revolution on the development of the social and humanitarian thinking.