Ideas in Conflict : Writing about the Great Issues of Civilization

by Winchell, Mark; Winchell, Donna Haisty

• ISBN13: 9781413014778
• ISBN10: 1413014771
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-16
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

IDEAS IN CONFLICT is a humanities reader with rhetorical coverage that looks at the great issues pondered by many cultures for centuries. Winchell and Winchell examine "the great controversies of civilization"-dilemmas plaguing humanity from ancient times to the present, topics where no one answer exists and debate will continue to go on for centuries. The authors take you on a fascinating journey from the beginning of the written word on through to present day, and encourage you to view all perspectives of these enduring issues. Then, you'll be asked to write about your own views. The reader strikes a balance between an emphasis on humanities and an emphasis on composition, writing, and rhetorical devices. Learning about the great issues of civilization can only be fully understood when coupled with critical thinking and writing skills. With discussion questions and suggested paper topics, IDEAS IN CONFLICT invites you to enter into the conversations that have been going on for centuries.

Table of Contents

Reading and Writing About the Great Issues

Reading and Thinking Critically

Understanding What You Read

Annotating the Text

Annotating in Practice

Summarizing What You Read

Summarizing in Practice

Examining Rhetorical Strategies

Analyzing the Context

Analyzing Audience and Gauging Reactions

Analyzing Structure and Genre

Analyzing Language

Rhetorical Strategies in Practice

Writing about the Readings

Responding to the Readings

Explaining the Readings

Exemplification

Synthesis

Definition

Classification

Cause and Effect

Comparison and Contrast

Process

Evaluating the Readings

Documenting Sources

Incorporating Quoted Material

Incorporating Paraphrased or Summarized Material

Avoiding Plagiarism

Writing in Practice

Human Nature and The Cosmic Order

Faith and Inquiry

Genesis, Chapters 1 and 2

Muhammad, From the Koran

North American Creation Myths

St. Anselm, The Ontological Argument, From Proslogion

William Paley, "The Watch and the Watchmaker," From Natural Theology

Alfred Tennyson, From In Memoriam

Charles Darwin, From The Origin of Species

From The Scopes Trial (transcript)

Choice and Destiny

Sophocles, Oedipus, the King

Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain

Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Tale"

William Shakespeare, scenes from Macbeth

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground,

Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever"

Richard Wright, From Native Son. B. F. Skinner, From Beyond Freedom and Dignity

Divine Goodness and the Problem of Evil

The Book of Job

Boethius, From The Consolation of Philosophy, Book Four

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, From Ihya

John Milton, From Paradise Lost, Book Twelve

Henry Adams, From The Education of Henry Adams.Mary Baker Eddy, From Science and Health

C. S. Lewis, From The Problem of Pain

Viktor E. Frankl, From "Experiences in a Concentration Camp"

Male and Female

"The Legend of Lilith," From Alphabet of Ben Sira

The Koran, Chapter Four

Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Prologue and Tale of the Wife of Bath"

Mary Wollstonecraft, From Vindication of the Rights of Women

Simone de Beauvoir, From The Second.Yukio Mishima, "Patriotism"

Alice Walker, "Roselily". Jan Morris, From Conundrum

Human Nature And The Social Order

The Individual and the Community

Plato, From Apology (on the Death of Socrates)

The Magna Charta

Nicolo Machiavelli, From The Prince

Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence"

Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"

Hannah Arendt, From The Origins of Totalitarianism

Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

Joan Didion, Fixed Ideas: America After 9-11

War and Peace

Homer, The Iliad, from Books VI & IX

Saint Thomas Aquinas, From Summa Theologica (On Just War Theory)

From "The International Agreement of the Geneva Convention"

Emma LeConte, From When the World Ended

Mohandas K. Gandhi, "Evidence before the Hunter Committee," From Satyagraha

Mao Tse-tung, "Imperialism, Revolution, and War". John Hersey, Hiroshima, Chapter One

Paul Fussell, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb"

Affluence and Equity

Hesiod, Works and Days

Sir Thomas More, From Utopia

Adam Smith, From The Wealth of Nations

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Edward Bellamy, From Looking Backward

Barbara Ehrenreich, From Nickel and Dimed

F. A. Hayek, From The Road to Serfdom

E. F. Schumacher, "Buddhist Economics"

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