西方文化经典英文教程

Chapter One： The Greek Culture

1： The Odyssey by Homer

2： Poetics by Aristotle

Chapter Two： The Roman Culture

1： Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar

2： The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Chapter Three： The Hebrew Culture

1： Genes/s from The Hebrew Bible

2： The Ten Commandments by Moses

Chapter Four： The Christian Culture

1： Matthew from The New Testament

2： The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

Chapter Five： Chinese Attractions

1： An Interpretive Essay on The Ming Dynasty Comes to Power by Lung-Kee Sun

2： The Travels of Marco Polo by Rustichello da Pisa

Chapter Six： The European Ethics

1： To Marcus TuUius Cicero by Francis Petrarch

2： The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

Chapter Seven： The European Expansion

1： Treaty between Spain and Portugal concluded at Tordesillas by Spain and Portugal

2： The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Chapter Eight： The Protestant Reformation

1： Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Martin Luther

2： Decrees of the Council of Trent

Chapter Nine： The West Uprising after Renaissance

1： The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber

2： The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Chapter Ten： The Scientific Revolution

1： On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus

2：The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Chapter Eleven： The Enlightenment

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

2： Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire

Chapter Twelve： American Revolution

1： The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen by the National Assembly of France

2： The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

Chapter Thirteen： Socialism and Communism

1： The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

2： Capital： Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

Chapter Fourteen： Mniticnituralism and Globalism

1： The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington

2： The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

References

Acknowledgements

《西方文化经典英文教程》旨在指导学生通过对古希腊罗马古典时期至中世纪、文艺复兴、宗教改革、启蒙运动、科学革命，直至现代多元主义和全球化时代西方文化经典原著节选篇章的阅读和分析，为西方文化产生、演进和影响等方面勾勒出较为清楚的价值和发展曲线。在学习西方著作的同时，对西方思想和价值理念进行认识和批判。并对西方文明发展曾产生重大影响的历史文化事件进行分析，结合现代中国实际，提出自己对具体问题的认识和看法。