Foreword (总序) 1
Preface (前言) 1
The Ancient Times (古代篇) 2
Unit One: The Discovery of the Minds in Ancient Greece 2
1.Homer: Iliad 2
2.Socrates: Apology 13
3.Plato: The Republic 30
Unit Two: The Power and Authority in Ancient Rome 39
4.Thucydides:History of the Peloponnesian War 39
5.Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations 52
Unit Three: The Church and Religion in the Middle Ages 64
6.The Holy Bible 64
7.St.Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica 78
The Modern Times (近代篇) 86
Unit Four: The Rise of Humanism in Renaissance and Reformation 86
8.Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince 86
9.Martin Luther: A Treatise on Christian Liberty 92
Unit Five: New Dimensions of the Mind from the Enlightenment 105
10.Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy 105
11.Rene Descartes: Discourse on the Method 116
12.John Locke: Of Civil Government 125
13.Immanuel Kant: What Is Enlightenment? 138
14.Charles de Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws 149
15.Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile, or, on Education 157
The Contemporary Times(现代篇) 170
Unit Six: The New Thoughts Movement in the 19th Century 170
16.Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations 170
17.Friedrich Nietzsche : The Birth of Tragedy 178
18.Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 188
19.Tocqueville: Democracy in America 198
20.John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University 210
21.Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 222
22.Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams 232
The Present Times (当代篇) 250
Unit Seven: Hybridity of Global Multiculture in the 20th Century 250
23.Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex 250
24.Jean-Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness 264
25.Fredric Jameson : Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 279
26.Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization 295
27.Marshall McLuhan : Understanding Media—The Extension of Man 310
28.Alvin Toffler: The Third Wave 322
Appendix (附录) 332
References (参参考文) 341