Unit t The Christian Bible

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Genesis

Gospel According to Matthew

Part Three Compare with China

Chinese Creation Stories

Part Four Supplementary Reading

How Is Religion Different from Science and Superstition?

Unit 2 Greek & Roman Sages (1)

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Socrates: The Apology

Plato: The Republic

Part Three Compare with China

The "Axial Age"

Part Four Supplementary Reading

The Teacher as Midwife

Unit 3 Greek & Roman Sages (2)

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Aristotle: The Politics

Cicero: On the Laws

Part Three Compare with China

Great Learning and the Mean

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Cicero Quotes

Unit 4 Medieval Christian Church Fathers

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

St. Augustine: The Enchiridion

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Contra Gentiles

Part Three Compare with China

Nee-Confucianism and Later Confucian Philosophy

Part Four Supplementary Reading

St. Thomas Aquinas

Unit 5 Renaissance Adventurers

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Christopher Columbus: Journal and Letter

Nicolb Machiavelli: The Prince

Part Three Compare with China

Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Criticism against and Hail for Columbus

Unit 6 Religious Reformation

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Martin Luther: An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate

John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

Part Three Compare with China

Wang Yangming and Matteo Ricci's Progression to China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

95 Theses by Martin Luther

Unit 7 Modern Scientific Thinking (1)

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Francis Bacon: Novum Organum

Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method

Part Three Compare with China

Matteo Ricci: The Art of Printing

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Calculating Machines in China and Europe in the 17th Century -- The Western View

Unit 8 Modern Scientific Thinking (2)

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Optics

Part Three Compare with China

Development of Science in Ancient China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Critical Thinking

Unit 9 Modern Political science

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

John Locke: Of Civil Government

Part Three Compare with China

Locke Talking about China and the Chinese

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Political Controversies in 17th-Century England

Unit 10 Chassical Liberalism

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

Part Three Compare with China

Western Images of China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

The Declaration of Independence

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Unit 11 Anti-Liberalism

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power

Part Three Compare with China

From Western Liberalism to Asian Communitarianism

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France

Unit i2 Evolutionists

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population

Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (1859)

The Descent of Man

Part Three Compare with China

Warning Voice of Social Darwinism in Early 20th-Century

China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Unit 13 Socialism and Communism

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party

Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism

Part Three Compare with China

Karl Marx on China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Lenin: Marxism and Revisionism

Unlt 4 Early 20th Century: Man &Society

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Sigmund Freud: An Outline of Psychoanalysis

John Dewey: Liberalism and Social Action

Part Three Compare with China

Early Education in China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Freud on the Couch

Unit 15 Science & Religion

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship

Alfred North Whitehead: Science and the Modern World (1925)

Part Three Compare with China

Bertrand Russell: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Alfred North Whitehead on Education

Unit 16 Man & Woman: Modern Existence

Part One Warm-up Activities

Part Two Basic Readings

Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism

Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

Part Three Compare with China

The First Glimpses of China

Part Four Supplementary Reading

Existentialism