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World of Ideas, Essential Readings for College Students,9780312148638

World of Ideas, Essential Readings for College Students

by Jacobus, Lee A.; Jacobus, Lee A.

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5th

ISBN13:

9780312148638

ISBN10:

0312148631

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

6/1/1998

Publisher(s):

BEDFORD

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World of Ideas

Table of Contents

Preface

v

Evaluating Ideas: An Introduction to Critical Reading

1

(10)

PART ONE GOVERNMENT

11

(92)

Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching

17

(16)

Lao-Tzu

The Qualities of the Prince

33

(18)

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Origin of Civil Society

51

(22)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Declaration of Independence

73

(10)

Thomas Jefferson

Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form

83

(20)

Hannah Arendt

PART TWO JUSTICE

103

(84)

From Narrative of the Life

107

(16)

Frederick Douglass

Civil Disobedience

123

(28)

Henry David Thoreau

Letter from Birmingham Jail

151

(22)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

From The Second Sex

173

(14)

Simone De Beauvoir

PART THREE WEALTH

187

(82)

Of the Principle of the Commercial

193

(16)

Adam Smith

The Communist Manifesto

209

(28)

Karl Marx

The Position of Poverty

237

(14)

John Kenneth Galbraith

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer

251

(18)

Robert B. Reich

PART FOUR MIND

269

(104)

The Allegory of the Cave

275

(14)

Plato

On the Limits of Man's Intellect

289

(18)

Moses Maimonides

From The Interpretation of Dreams

307

(14)

Sigmund Freud

The Personal and the Collective Unconscious

321

(16)

Carl Jung

The Distrust Between the Sexes

337

(16)

Karen Horney

A Rounded Version: The Theory

353

(20)

Howard Gardner

PART FIVE NATURE

373

(98)

The Four Idols

379

(18)

Francis Bacon

Natural Selection

397

(18)

Charles Darwin

Nonmoral Nature

415

(16)

Stephen Jay Gould

The Theory of the Universe?

431

(18)

Michio Kaku

All Africa and Her Progenies

449

(22)

Richard Dawkins

PART SIX CULTURE

471

(92)

Observations on Egypt

477

(20)

Herodotus

From La Relacion

497

(14)

Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

The Pueblos of New Mexico

511

(18)

Ruth Benedict

Women, Sex, and Sin

529

(14)

Margaret Mead

"From the Native's Point of View":

543

(20)

Clifford Geertz

PART SEVEN FAITH

563

(112)

The Buddha Meditation: The Path to Enlightenment

569

(20)

Siddhartha Gautama

The Sermon on the Mount

589

(12)

St. Matthew

The Bhagavad Gita Meditation and Knowledge

601

(16)

The Prophet Muhammad From the Koran

617

(12)

St. Teresa of Avila The Raptures of St. Teresa

629

(12)

Apollonianism and Dionysianism

641

(20)

Friedrich Nietzsche

From I and Thou

661

(14)

Martin Buber

PART EIGHT POETICS

675

(94)

Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear

681

(18)

Aristotle

From An Essay on Criticism

699

(16)

Alexander Pope

From the preface to Lyrical Ballads

715

(16)

William Wordsworth

A Letter to a Young Poet

731

(20)

Virginia Woolf

Against Interpretation

751

(18)

Susan Sontag

Writing About Ideas: An Introduction to Rhetoric

769

(24)

Index of Rhetorical Terms

793

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