Unit 1 Love 1
Text A Of Love 1
Text B Is Love an Art? 7
Unit 2 Happiness 16
Text A The Happy Man 16
Text B Civilization and Its Discontents 24
Unit 3 Beauty 33
Text A The Idea of Beauty 33
Text B Detached Reflections on Different Questions of Aesthetics 40
Unit 4 History 50
Text A Flowers of History 50
Text B Use and Abuse of History 56
Unit 5 Religion 61
Text A The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion 61
Text B God and Evil:A Positive View 67
Unit 6 Education 75
Text A A Liberal Education 75
Text B On Education 81
Unit 7 Philosophy 89
Text A The Value of Philosophy 89
Text B The One Against the Many 98
Unit 8 Sciences 109
Text A Scientific Knowledge and Common Knowledge 109
Text B Science and Religion 118
Unit 9 Nature 127
Text A Nature 127
Text B Sol itude 133
Unit 10 Society 142
Text A Prologue Tolerance 142
Text B Money and Ethic 150
Unit 11 Politics 158
Text A Of the Causes,Generation,and Definition of a Commonwealth 158
Text B Social Compact and Law 164
Unit 12 Human Rights 173
Text A Life with Daughters:Watching the Miss America Pageant 173
Text B The Second Sex 181
Unit 13 War 193
Text A The Moral Equivalent of War 193
Text B Looking Back on the Spanish War(Excerpts) 209
Unit 14 Economics 221
Text A Economics:Market and Organization 221
Text B The Financial and Macroeconomic Crisis of 2008 and Beyond 229
Unit 15 Future 239
Text A De-massifying the Media:A Warehouse of Images 239
Text B The Future Is Now 250
References 261