Unit One 1
Text: The Language Game 2
Study Practice 5
Reading Passage One: Philosophical Investigations 8
Reading Passage Two: Philosophical Investigations(continued) 12
Unit Two 15
Text: A Proud Word for History 16
Study Practice 23
Reading Passage One: Biography and History 26
Reading Passage Two: The Seismic Sixties: When and Why did the Sixties Begin? 31
Unit Three 36
Text: Examining Christian Morality 37
Study Practice 41
Reading Passage One: The Company Man 44
Reading Passage Two: Guilt 46
Unit Four 50
Text: Why Study Religion 51
Study Practice 56
Reading Passage One: The Collapse of Community and Custom 60
Reading Passage Two: Changing Patterns in American Religious Life 63
Unit Five 69
Text: Discovering the Self 70
Study Practice 73
Reading Passage One: Language as Human Behaviour 76
Reading Passage Two: The Relationship between Language and Thought 79
Unit Six 83
Text: Abstraction in Science and Art 84
Study Practice 87
Reading Passage One: Art Education and Postmodernism 90
Reading Passage Two: Plato and the Mirror of Nature 94
Unit Seven 97
Text: Art as Experience 98
Study Practice 101
Reading Passage One: To a Cabinet Minister 104
Reading Passage Two: To a Cabinet Minister(continued) 106
Unit Eight 110
Text: Tradition and the Individual Talent 111
Study Practice 114
Reading Passage One: The Child s Need for Magic 117
Reading Passage Two: The Keys to Dreamland 120
Unit Nine 124
Text: Journalists as Professionals 125
Study Practice 130
Reading Passage One:Journalism and Moral Innocents 133
Reading Passage Two:The Sweet Sound of Conflict 137
Unit Ten 142
Text: Culture,Subculture,and Counterculture 143
Study Practice 147
Reading Passage One: Popular-common Culture 151
Reading Passage Two: Globalization 155
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises 160
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translations of the Texts 171
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary 189