Unit One Text: The Reality of the External World Reading Passage One: Philosophers' Doubts Reading Passage Two: Philosophy in Education: The Allegory of the Cave Unit Two Text: Historian in an Age of Crisis Reading Passage One: The Warden Reading Passage Two: To Make Them Stand in Fear Unit Three Text: Religion and Reality Reading Passage One: Honor the Divine Reading Passage Two: American Religion: The State, the Congregation and the People Unit Four Text: The Function of Literature Reading Passage One: Tradition and the Individual Talent Reading Passage Two: Some Self-Analysis Unit 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 Sense Unit Six Text: Value Judgment in History Reading Passage One: The Rehabilitation of Europe Unit Seven Text: Religious Evolution Reading Passage One: Modem Mission, Global Christianity Reading Passage Two: What's Right about the Religious Right Unit Eight Text: Abstraction in Science and Art Reading Passage One: The Metaphysical Hypothesis Reading Passage Two: Clive Bell and His Metaphysical Hypothesis Unit Nine Text: James's Theory of Truth Reading Passage One: The Need for a Theory of the Good Reading Passage Two: Nature Unit 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 Life Unit Twelve Text: Some Coordinates of Art Criticism Reading Passage One: The Work of Art as Imaginary Object Reading Passage Two: Art as Experience Appendix I Key to Exercises Appendix II Chinese Translation of the Texts Appendix III Glossary
