Unit 1 The Christian Bible
Genesis
Exodus
Gospel According to Matthew
Acts of the Apostles
Compare with China
1��Chinese Creation Stories
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Supplementary Reading
1��Is Religion Just Organized Superstition? Is Superstition Always Religious?
2��How Is Science Different from Religion?
3��Why I 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
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Supplementary Reading
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Questions for Discussion

Unit 3 Greek & Roman Sages ��2��
Aristole�� The Politics
Cicero�� On the Laws
Compare with China
Great Learning and The Mean
Supplementary Reading
Marcus TuUius 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
Nicolb 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
Compare with China
Wang Yangming and Matteo Ricci's Progression to China
Supplementary Reading
Excerpts 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 PolitJcal Science
Thomas Hobbes�� Leviathan
John Locke�� Of Civil Govemment
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
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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