“高等学校英语专业系列教材”是一套为英语专业高年级本料生和研究生编写的教材,包括**英语语言技能、英语专业知识和相关专业知识三个方面。本系列教材为开放式,涵盖面广,设计科学,注重时代性、知识性与实用性,有助于学习者在掌握英语技能的基础上进一步扩展知识领域,培养应用能力,提高综合素养。
《西方思想经典导读》为“北京市高等教育精品教材”,可用作高等学校英语专业高年级文化课教材,旨在通过对西方文化史的纵向考察和对西方思想经典文献的深度阅读,帮助学生拓宽知识面,提高人文素养,培养思辨能力。《西方思想经典导读》有如下特点:
详尽注释化解原著阅读障碍,精心导读**学子登堂入室。
在学术训练中延伸英语学习,在英语学习中深化学术训练。
文学、史学、哲学融为一体,阅读、写作、讨论贯穿始终。
走近西方思想巨擘,品味西方思想经典,领悟西方文化精髓。
文化与经典同步展开,历史与思想交相辉映。

Chapter1 Greek Culture
The Funeral Oration of Pericles Thucydides
The Apology Plato
Politics Aristotle

Chapter2 Roman Culture
Roman Oration Aelius Aristides
The Meditations Marcus Aurelius

Chapter3 Early Christianity
The Gospel According to St.Matthew
The City of God Saint Augustine

Chapter4 Middle Ages
Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas
The Christian Way of Life St.Benedict of Nursia

Chapter5 Renaissance
Orationon the Dignity of Man Picodella Mirandola
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli

Chapter6 The Reformation
On Papal Power; Justification by Faith;
The Interpretation of the Bible Martin Luther
The Institutes John Calvin

Chapter7 The Scientific Revolution
Attackon Authority and Advocacy of Experimental Science
Francis Bacon
Discourseon Method Rene Descartes

Chapter8 The Enlightenment
Whatis Enlightenment?Immanuel Kant
The Ageof Reason Thomas Paine
The Second Treatise of Government John Locke

Chapter9 Romanticism
Prefaceto Lyrical Ballads; The Tables Turned William Wordsworth
Faust Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe

Chapter10 Socialism
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marxand Friedrich Engels
The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens

Chapter11 Liberalism
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
On Liberty John Stuart Mill
Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract Thomas Hill Green

Chapter12 Darwinism
On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man Charles Darwin
Social Statics Herbert Spencer

Chapter13 The Challenge to the Tradition
The Will to Power; The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche
Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud

Chapter14 The Modernist Movement
Manifesto of Surrealism Andrr Breton
Ulysses James Joyce
The Second Coming W. B. Yeats
sincefeelingisfirste.e.cummings

Chapter15 The Westinan Age of Globalism
Existentialism Isa Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
Appendix1 A Sketch of Western Civilization
Appendix2 Great Books of the Western World
References
Acknowledgements

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Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present Greek state, but also to those areas settled by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Turkey (then known as Ionia), Sicily and southern Italy (known as Great Greece), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Libya, Romania, Spain, and Ukraine.
Traditionally, the Ancient Greek period was taken to begin with the date of the first Olympic Games in 776 B.C., but most historians now extend the term back to about 1000 B.C. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. The following period is classed Hellenistic, which lasted until the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 B.C. 经过五年的教学实践,“西方思想经典导读”已正式确立为北京外国语大学英语专业必修课,在三年级上学期开设,深受学生欢迎。据了解,这门课程或类似课程正在进入越来越多的国内高校英语专业课程设置,成为英语专业人文通识教育的重要组成部分。另外,国内众多综合性大学也已把西方思想经典阅读之类的课程纳入全校通识课程或文科相关专业核心课程体系。本教材同时满足上述两方面的教学之需。
“西方思想经典导读”课程探讨西方文化史上的价值观念演变、重要思想家及思想流派、主要文学与艺术成就、宗教传统以及社会历史变迁,旨在通过对西方文化史的纵向考察和对西方思想经典文献的深度阅读,帮助学生拓宽知识面,提高人文素养,培养思辨能力。
该课程在历史、美学和哲学三个层面同时展开。在历史层面,该课程为学生勾勒西方文明史的宏观演进路径,尤其关注对西方文明发展曾产生重大影响的社会与文化事件,使学生认识西方思想产生的历史背景。在美学层面,该课程为学生提供欣赏西方**艺术与文学作品的机会,感受西方思想和价值观念在西方文艺作品中的生动表现。在哲学层面,该课程引导学生进入西方思想大家的**,阅读和分析西方政治、经济、社会、伦理、法律、科学、文艺和宗教思想史上具有里程碑意义的名篇,掌握批判性阅读的技巧,学会运用证据和逻辑有效组织和陈述自己的观点。