人文科学专业英语教程

Unit One Text: The Reality of the External World　Reading Passage One: Philosophers' Doubts　Reading Passage Two: Philosophy in Education: The Allegory of the CaveUnit Two　Text: Historian in an Age of Crisis　Reading Passage One: The Warden　Reading Passage Two: To Make Them Stand in FearUnit Three　Text: Religion and Reality　Reading Passage One: Honor the Divine　Reading Passage Two: American Religion: The State, the Congregation and the PeopleUnit Four　Text: The Function of Literature　Reading Passage One: Tradition and the Individual Talent

Unit One Text: The Reality of the External World　Reading Passage One: Philosophers' Doubts　Reading Passage Two: Philosophy in Education: The Allegory of the CaveUnit Two　Text: Historian in an Age of Crisis　Reading Passage One: The Warden　Reading Passage Two: To Make Them Stand in FearUnit Three　Text: Religion and Reality　Reading Passage One: Honor the Divine　Reading Passage Two: American Religion: The State, the Congregation and the PeopleUnit Four　Text: The Function of Literature　Reading Passage One: Tradition and the Individual Talent　Reading Passage Two: Some Self-AnalysisUnit Five　Text: The Subject-Matter of Ethics　Reading Passage One: An Analysis of Moore's Definition of Good　Reading Passage Two: The Defence of Common SenseUnit Six　Text: Value Judgment in History　Reading Passage One: The Rehabilitation of EuropeUnit Seven Text: Religious Evolution Reading Passage One: Modem Mission, Global Christianity Reading Passage Two: What's Right about the Religious RightUnit Eight Text: Abstraction in Science and Art Reading Passage One: The Metaphysical Hypothesis Reading Passage Two: Clive Bell and His Metaphysical HypothesisUnit Nine Text: James's Theory of Truth Reading Passage One: The Need for a Theory of the Good Reading Passage Two: NatureUnit Ten..,, Text: History and the Social Sciences Reading Passage One: Biography and History Reading Passage Two: The Seismic Sixties: When and Why Did the Sixties Begin?Unit Eleven Text: What Is Theological Knowledge? Reading Passage One: The Collapse of Community and Custom Reading Passage Two: Changing Patterns in American Religious LifeUnit Twelve Text: Some Coordinates of Art Criticism Reading Passage One: The Work of Art as Imaginary Object Reading Passage Two: Art as ExperienceAppendix I Key to ExercisesAppendix II Chinese Translation of the TextsAppendix III Glossary

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