Unit One 1
Text:The Reality of the External World 3
Reading Passage One:Philosophers'Doubts 10
Reading Passage Two:Philosophy in Education:The Allegory of the Cave 15
Unit Two 21
Text:Historian in an Age of Crisis 23
Reading Passage One:The Warden 33
Reading Passage Two:To Make Them Stand in Fear 38
Unit Three 43
Text:Religion and Reality 45
Reading Passage One:Honor the Divine 53
Reading Passage Two:American Religion:The State,the Congregation and the People 59
Unit Four 65
Text:The Function of Literature 67
Reading Passage One:Tradition and the Individual Talent 75
Reading Passage Two:Some Self-Analysis 79
Unit Five 83
Text:The Subject-Matter of Ethics 85
Reading Passage One:An Analysis of Moore's Definition of Good 94
Reading Passage Two:The Defence of Common Sense 98
Unit Six 103
Text:Value Judgment in History 105
Reading Passage One:The Rehabilitation of Europe 114
Reading Passage Two:Obligations to the Dead 118
Unit Seven 125
Text:Religious Evolution 127
Reading Passage One:Modern Mission,Global Christianity 137
Reading Passage Two:What's Right about the Religious Right 142
Unit Eight 149
Text:Abstraction in Science and Art 151
Reading Passage One:The Metaphysical Hypothesis 159
Reading Passage Two:Clive Bell and His Metaphysical Hypothesis 163
Unit Nine 167
Text:James's Theory of Truth 169
Reading Passage One:The Need for a Theory of the Good 177
Reading Passage Two:Nature 182
Unit Ten 187
Text:History and the Social Sciences 189
Reading Passage One:Biography and History 199
Reading Passage Two:The Seismic Sixties:When and Why Did the Sixties Begin? 204
Unit Eleven 209
Text:What Is Theological Knowledge? 211
Reading Passage One:The Collapse of Community and Custom 222
Reading Passage Two:Changing Patterns in American Religious Life 227
Unit Twelve 233
Text:Some Coordinates of Art Criticism 235
Reading Passage One:The Work of Art as Imaginary Object 243
Reading Passage Two:Art as Experience 247
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises 253
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translation of the Texts 271
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary 299