西方人文思潮是西方文明数千年发展的积累，是西方文化的精华。学习西方思想文化典籍，可以拓宽英语专业本科生在西方文化、科学、哲学、美学等人文、社会、自然科学领域里的知识，加深对欧美文化的了解，增加对欧美人文脉络的总体把握，也是英语专业其他专业课程的高度凝练：通过用英语表述西方文化传统和中华文化精髓，在更高层次上加强“听说读写译”英语语言基本功，提高跨文化交际的能力。

“西方思想经典”从古希腊罗马一直讲到二十世纪，旨在使英语专业的本科生打下初步的西学基础，以便能够深入地了解西方文化。

Unit 1 The Christian Bible

 Genesis

 Exodus

 Gospel According to Matthew

 Acts of the Apostles

 Compare with China

1. Chinese Creation Stories

2. 汉译《圣经》之考察

 Supplementary Reading

1. Is Religion Just Organized Superstition? Is Superstition Always Religious?

2. How Is Science Different from Religion?

3. Why [ Am Not a Christian

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 2 Greek & Roman Sages (1)

 Socrates: The Apology

 Plato: The Republic

 Compare with China

1. Axial Age

2. 苏格拉底与孔子的盐说方式比较

 Supplementary Reading

雅典凭什么判苏格拉底死刑

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 3 Greek & Roman sages (2)

 Aristotle: The Politics

 Cicero: On the Laws

 Compare with China

 Great Learning and The Mean

 Supplementary Reading

 Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 4 Medieval Christian Church Fathers

 St. Augustine: The Enchiridion

 Thomas Aquinas: Summa Contra Gentiles

 Compare with China

 Neo-Confucianism and Later Confucian Philosophy

 Supplementary Reading

1. Common Characteristics of Scholasticism

2. St. Thomas Aquinas

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 5 Renaissance Adventurers

 Christopher Columbus: Journal and Letter

 Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince

 Compare with China

 The Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower

 Supplementary Reading

1. No Cheers for Columbus

2. Conservatives Hail for Columbus

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 6 Religious Reformation

 Desiderius Erasmus: A Pilgrimage for Religion's Sake

 Martin Luther: An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility

 John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion

 Compare with China

 Wang Yangming and Matteo Ricci's Progression to China

 Supplementary Reading

  xcerpts of the 95 Theses

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 7 Modern Scientific Thinking (1)

 Francis Bacon: Novum Organum

 Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method

 Compare with China

 Matteo Ricci: The Art of Printing

 Supplementary Reading

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

 Western View

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 8 Modern Scientific Thinking(2)

 Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

 Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

 Optics

 Compare with China

 Development of Science in Ancient China

 Supplementary Reading

 Critical Thinking

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 9 Modern Political Science

 Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

 John Locke: Of Civil Government

 Compare with China

1. Confucianism and Human Dignity: Toward a Balanced View of Rights and Duty

2. Locke Talking about China and the Chinese

 Supplementary Reading

1. Political Controversies in the 17th Century England

2. Charles I: Speech Before Execution (January 30, 1649)

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 10 Classical Liberalism

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

 of Nations

 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

 Compare with China

1. Western Images of China

2. Qianlong Meets Macartney: Collision of Two World Views

Supplementary Reading

1. The Declaration of Independence

2. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 11 Anti-Liberalism

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

 Arts and Sciences

 Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power

 Compare with China

 From Western Liberalism to Asian CommUnitarianism

 Supplementary Reading

1. Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France

2. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 12 Evolutionists

 Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population

 Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (1859)

 Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man

 Compare with China

 The Warning Voice of Social Darwinism in Early 20th Century China

 Supplementary Reading

 1. Autobiography of Charles Darwin

 2. Piltdown Man Forgery

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 13 Socialism and Communism,

 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party

 Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism

 Compare with China

1. Karl Marx on China

2. 《共产党宣言》在中国的早期翻译、出版和传播

 Supplementary Reading

1. Study Guide for The Communist Manifesto

2. V. I. Lenin: Marxism and Revisionism

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 14 Early 20th Century: Man & Society

 Sigmund Freud: An Outline of Psychoanalysis

 John Dewey: Liberalism and Social Action

 Compare with China

 John Dewey as a Learner in China

 Supplementary Reading

1. Freud on the Couch

2. Early Education in China

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 15 Science & Religion

 Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship

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

 Compare with China

 Bertrand Russell: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

 Supplementary Reading

 Alfred North Whitehead on Education

 Questions for Discussion

Unit 16 Man & Woman: Modern Existence

 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism

 Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex

 Compare with China

 The First Glimpses of China

 Supplementary Reading

1. Existentialism

2. Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

 Questions for Discussion