Preface
To the Student
Evaluating Ideas: An Introduction to Critical Reading
PART ONE: GOVERNMENT
new VISUALIZING GOVERNMENT: Eugéne Delacroix,
Liberty Leading the People [Image]
Lao-Tzu, Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Qualities of the Prince
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Origin of Civil Society
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
new José Ortega y Gasset, The Greatest Danger, the State
new Carl Becker, Ideal Democracy
Hannah Arendt, Total Domination
PART TWO: JUSTICE
new VISUALIZING JUSTICE: Luca Giordano,
The Triumph of Justice [Image]
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Defense of Injustice
Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and American Slave
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
new PART THREE: THE INDIVIDUAL
new VISUALIZING THE INDIVIDUAL: Caspar David Friedrich,
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog [Image]
new Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
new Emile Durkheim, The Individual and the Intellectuals
new W.E.B. DuBois, Of Our Spiritual Strivings
newRuth Benedict, The Individual and the Pattern of Culture
new Erich Fromm, The Individual in the Chains of Illusion
PART IV: WEALTH AND POVERTY
new VISUALIZING WEALTH AND POVERTY: Henry Osawa Tanner,
The Thankful Poor [Image]
Adam Smith, Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
new Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Position of Poverty
Robert B. Reich, Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer
PART V: MIND
new VISUALIZING THE MIND: Salvador Dalí,
The Persistence of Memory [Image]
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
new René Descartes, Fourth Meditation: Of Truth and Error
Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex
Carl Jung, The Personal and Collective Unconscious
Howard Gardner, A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
new Steven Pinker, Thinking Machines
new V.S. Ramachandran, Neuroscience¾ The New Philosophy
PART VI: NATURE
new VISUALIZING NATURE: Asher Durand,
Kindred Spirits [Image]
Francis Bacon, The Four Idols
Charles Darwin, Natural Selection
Rachel Carson, The Sunless Sea
Stephen Jay Gould, Nonmoral Nature
Michio Kaku, The Mystery of Dark Matter
new Francis Fukuyama, Genetic Engineering
PART VII: ETHICS AND MORALITY
new VISUALIZING ETHICS AND MORALITY: Joseph Wright,
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump [Image]
Aristotle, The Aim of Man
Friedrich Nietzsche, Morality as Anti-Nature
Iris Murdoch, Morality and Religion
new Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic
new Peter Singer & Jim Mason, The Ethics of Eating Meat
new PART VIII: GENDER AND CULTURE
new VISUALIZING GENDER AND CULTURE: Mary Cassatt,
In the Loge [Image]
Mary Wollstonecraft, Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
new John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Virgina Woolf, Shakespeare’s Sister
new Margaret Mead, Sex and Temperament
new Claude Lévi-Strauss, Men, Women, and Chiefs
new Germaine Greer, Masculinity
WRITING ABOUT IDEAS: An Introduction to Rhetoric
INDEX OF RHETORICAL TERMS