Chapter 1 Greek Culture 2
The Funeral Oration of Pericles Thucydides 4
The Apology Plato 9
Politics Aristotle 17
Chapter 2 Roman Culture 26
Roman Oration Aelius Aristides 28
The Meditations Marcus Aurelius 32
Chapter 3 Early Christianity 40
The Gospel According to St.Matthew 42
The City of God Saint Augustine 46
Chapter 4 Middle Ages 56
Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas 58
The Christian Way of Life St.Benedict of Nursia 62
Chapter 5 Renaissance 68
Oration on the Dignity of Man Pico della Mirandola 70
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli 74
Chapter 6 The Reformation 82
On Papal Power;Justification by Faith;The Interpretation of the Bible Martin Luther 84
The Institutes John Calvin 92
Chapter 7 The Scientific Revolution 104
Attack on Authority and Advocacy of Experimental Science Francis Bacon 106
Discourse on Method René Descartes 111
Chapter 8 The Enlightenment 120
What is Enlightenment?Immanuel Kant 122
The Age of Reason Thomas Paine 125
The Second Treatise of Government John Locke 130
Chapter 9 Romanticism 138
Preface to Lyrical Ballads;The Tables Turned William Wordsworth 140
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 146
Chapter 10 Socialism 154
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 156
The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 167
Chapter 11 Liberalism 178
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 180
On Liberty John Stuart Mill 184
Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract Thomas Hill Green 188
Chapter 12 Darwinism 196
On the Origin of Species;The Descent of Man Charles Darwin 198
Social Statics Herbert Spencer 204
Chapter 13 The Challenge to the Tradition 210
The Will to Power;The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche 212
Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud 220
Chapter 14 The Modernist Movement 228
Manifesto of Surrealism André Breton 230
Ulysses James Joyce 234
The Second Coming W.B.Yeats 239
since feeling is first e.e.cummings 242
Chapter 15 The West in an Age of Globalism 248
Existentialism Is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre 250
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan 256
Appendix 1 A Sketch of Western Civilization 263
Appendix 2 Great Books of the Western World 273
References 282
Acknowledgements 285