CONTENTS 1
Unit One 1
Text:James s Theory of Truth 2
Study Practice 7
Reading Passage One:The Defence of Common Sense 10
Reading Passage Two:Nature 13
Unit Two 16
Text:Value Judgement in History 17
Study Practice 24
Reading Passage One:The Rehabilitation of Europe 27
Reading Passage Two:The Warden 30
Unit Three 35
Text:The Need for a Theory of the Good 36
Study Practice 40
Reading Passage One:An Analysis of Moore s Definition of Good 43
Reading Passage Two:Letter to His Father 46
Unit Four 50
Text:Religious Evolution 51
Study Practice 58
Reading Passage One:The Church,a Perfect Society 61
Reading Passage Two:What s Right about the Religious Right 65
Unit Five 71
Text:Language and Literature 72
Study Practice 77
Reading Passage One:The Whorfian Hypothesis 81
Reading Passage Two:Language as a Social Behaviour 85
Unit Six 88
Text:The Metaphysical Hypothesis 89
Study Practice 92
Reading Passage One:Clive Bell and His Metaphysical Hypothesis 95
Reading Passage Two:Art for Art s Sake 98
Unit Seven 104
Text:How We Listen to Music 105
Study Practice 109
Reading Passage One:How We Listen to Music(continued) 112
Reading Passage Two:How Do We Know It s Good? 115
Unit Eight 120
Text:The Function of Literature 121
Study Practice 125
Reading Passage One:Literature and the Other Arts 128
Reading Passage Two:Some Self-analysis 132
Unit Nine 136
Text:In All Fairness 137
Study Practice 146
Reading Passage One:The Pulitzer Prize 149
Reading Passage Two:Electronic Newspapers 153
Unit Ten 158
Text:Constructing Cultural Metaphors 159
Study Practice 165
Reading Passage One:Shoring Up the West 168
Reading Passage Two:The Influence of American 172
Culture on Post-war Austria 172
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises(Units1-10) 177
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translations of the Texts(Units1-10) 188
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary 208