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A WORLD OF IDEAS, 8th EditionBedford/St. Martins Preface To the Student Evaluating Ideas: An Introduction to Critical Reading PART ONE: GOVERNMENT 7 Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (Image) Lao-Tzu, Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching Niccolò Machiavelli, The Qualities of the Prince Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Origin of Civil Society Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence José Ortega y Gasset, The Greatest Danger: The State Carl Becker, Ideal Democracy Hannah Arendt, Total Domination
PART TWO: JUSTICE 6 Luca Giordano, The Triumph of Justice (Image) Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Defense of Injustice Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail John Rawls, A Theory of Justice new PART THREE: THE INDIVIDUAL 5 Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Image) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Eric Durkheim, The Individual and the Intellectuals W. E. B. DuBois, from The Souls of Black Folk Ruth Benedict, The Individual and Patterns of Culture Eric Fromm, The Individual in the Chains of Illusion PART IV: WEALTH AND POVERTY 5 Henry Osawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor (Image) Adam Smith, Of the Natural Progress of Opulence (Possible change of text) Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth John Kenneth Galbraith, The Position of Poverty Robert B. Reich, Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer PART V: MIND 7 Salvator Dali, The Presence of Memory (Image) Plato, The Allegory of the Cave René Descartes, Meditation Four Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex Carl Jung, The Personal and Collective Unconscious Howard Gardner, A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Steven Pinker, The Thinking Machine (from How the Mind Works) V. S. Ramachandran, Neuroscience: the New Philosophy
PART VI: NATURE 6 Asher Durand, Kindred Spirits (Image) Francis Bacon, The Four Idols Charles Darwin, Natural Selection Rachel Carson, The Sunless Sea Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature Michio Kaku, The Mystery of Dark Matter Francis Fukuyama, Genetic Engineering PART VII: ETHICS AND MORALITY 5 Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (Image) Aristotle, The Aim of Man Friedrich Nietzsche, Morality as Anti-Nature Iris Murdoch, Morality and Religion Aldo Leopold, The Ethics of Land Peter Singer & Jim Mason, The Ethics of Eating Meat newPART VIII: GENDER AND CULTURE 6 Mary Cassatt, In the Loge (Image) Mary Wollstonecraft, Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women Virgina Woolf, Shakespeare’s Sister Margaret Mead, Sex and Temperament Claude Levi-Strauss, Men Women and Chiefs Germaine Greer, Masculinity WRITING ABOUT IDEAS: An Introduction to Rhetoric |