Part Ⅰ Ancient Greek and Roman Period 1
1．Plato/From Republic 2
2．Herodotus/From The History of Herodotus 8
3．Aristotle/From Poetics 13
4．Epicurus/From Letter to Menoeceus 19
5．Plotinus/From On the Intellectual Beauty 25
6．Dionysius Longinus/From On the sublime 30
7．Quintus Hoaratius Flaccus/From Art of Poetry 34
8．Saint Augustine/From The City of God 38
Part Ⅱ Renaissance Period 43
9．Petrarch/From To Marcus Tullius Cicero 44
10．Leonardo Bruni/From Panegyric to the City of Florence 48
11．Giovanni Pico della Mirandola/From Oration on the Dignity of Man 53
12．Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus/From The Praise of Folly 58
13．NiccolòMachiavelli/From The Prince 64
14．Sir Philip Sidney/From The Poet:Compared and Contrasted With Historian and Philosopher 68
15．René Descartes/From Principia Philosophiae 72
16．Frances Bacon/From Novum Organum 77
17．Thomas Hobbes/From Leviathan 81
Part Ⅲ Modem Period 85
18．John Locke/From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 86
19．Baruch Spinoza/From Ethics 90
20．Gottfried Leibniz/From A Philosopher's Creed 94
21．Giambattista Vico/From The New Science 98
22．George Berkeley/From Principals of Human Knowledge 102
23．Baron de Montesquieu/From The Spirit of Law 107
24．David Hume/From A Treatise of Human Nature 112
25．Jean Jacques Rousseau/From The Social Contract(BookⅠ) 118
26．Adam Smith/From An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth ofN ations(BookⅠ) 123
27．Immanuel Kant/From Critique of Pure Reason 129
28．Edmund Burke/From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful 133
29．Thomas Paine/From The Rights of Man 139
30．Thomas Jefferson/From Declaration of Independence 143
31．Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/From The Sorrows of Young Werther 146
32．Friedrich Schiller/From On the Aesthetic Education of Man:In a Series of Letters 150
33．Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel/From The Science of Logic 154
34．Ralph Waldo Emerson/From History 158
35．John Stuart Mill/From On Liberty 164
36．Lewis Henry Morgan/From Ancient Society 169
37．Karl Heinrich Marx/From Capital 173
38．Herbert Spencer/From The Principles of Sociology 176
39．Matthew Arnold/From The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 180
40．Leo Tolstoy/From What Is Art? 184
41．William James/From Pragmatism 189
42．Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche/From Thus Spake Zarathustra 194
43．John Bates Clark/From The Distribution of Wealth 198
44．Sir James George Frazer/From The Golden Bough 202
45．Sigmund Freud/From Civilization and its Discontents 206
46．Ferdinand de Saussure/From Writings in General Linguistics 212
47．Franz Boas/From The Mind of Primitive Man 217
48．Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl/From Ideas:General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology 221
Part Ⅳ Contemporary Period 225
49．John Dewey/From On Democracy 226
50．George Santayana/From The Sense of Beauty:Being an Outline of Aesthetic Theory 229
51．Hermann Ebbinghaus/From Memory:A Contribution to Experimental Psychology 233
52．Bertrand Russell/From A Free Man's Worship 237
53．Albert Einstein/From Why Socialism? 242
54．Elton Mayo/From The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization 245
55．John Maynard Keynes/From The Economic Consequences of the Peace 249
56．Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski/From Magic,Science,and Religion 253
57．Georg Lukacs/From History and Class Consciousness 257
58．Martin Heidegger/From Being and Time 261
59．Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein From Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 265
60．Robin George Collingwood/From The Idea of History 268
61．Hans-George Gadamer/From Truth and Method 272
62．Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre/From Being and Nothingness 276
63．Claude Levi-Strauss/From The Savage Mind 280
64．John Rawls/From A Theory of Justice 284
65．Abraham Harold Maslow/From A Theory of Human Motivation 288
66．Michel Foucault/From Archaeology of Knowledge 292
67．Jean Piaget/From The Child's Conception of the World 297
68．Avram Noam Chomsky/From Language and Mind 300
69．George P.Lakoff＆Mark L.Johnson/From Philosophy in the Flesh 304
Part Ⅴ Ancient Chinese Period 309
70．Confucius/From The Analects 310
71．Laozi/From Dao De Jing 314
72．Mozi/From Mozi 317
73．Mencius/From Mencius 321