Forty-seven substantial readings by important thinkers explore eight great ideas. Writers such as Aristotle, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, and Mary Wollstonecraft discuss
government, justice, the individual, wealth and poverty, mind, nature, ethics and morality, and gender and culture.
Extensive editorial apparatus helps students handle the challenging material and includes part introductions, introductory quotations, helpful glosses, pre-reading questions, abundant discussion and connection questions, and writing prompts that help students focus their thinking and refine their understanding of the texts.
Comprehensive Instructor’s Manual provides support for your teaching and includes: sentence outlines for every selection, further background on the selections, suggestions for classroom discussion and student writing assignments, brief bibliographies for every author, and sample syllabi.