Table of Contents
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xix
Timeline xxi
Pronunciation Guide xxvii
Reading the World
Human Nature 3
The Shaft of the Dead Man 6
from Maitrayana-Brahmana-Upanishad 9
from the Mencius 16
Man's Nature Is Evil 24
Madonna and Child 34
from Leviathan 37
The Dependent Relationship of the Ego 43
Igbo Mother and Child 53
The Individual and the Pattern of Culture 56
from The Ethics of Ambiguity 68
Law and Government 77
Hammurabi's Code 80
The Papyrus of Ani 90
1 Samuel 8-10 94
from the Agganna Sutta 100
from the Too te Ching 104
Seventeen-Article Constitution 116
from The Treasure of the City of the Ladies 122
from The Prince 130
Federalist #10 139
An Address at the Congress of Angostura 148
from The Triumph of the Will 157
The Gikuyu System of Government 160
Letter from Birmingham City Jail 172
from In Quest of Democracy 190
War and Peace 198
from The Art of War 201
from Book 2 205
from Summa Theologica 210
Methods of Waging War Practiced by the Various Nations 215
Liberty Leading the People 220
What is War? 223
Guernica 236
Warfare: An Invention-Not a Biological Necessity 239
Pacifism and the War 247
Come September 253
What Is a Just War? 268
Wealth, Poverty, and Social Class 280
Against Music 283
Luke, Chapter 16 289
from Sura Four: Women 293
from Memoirs 299
Beer Street and Gin Lane 304
from An Essay on the Principle of Population 309
from The Communist Manifesto 317
Economic and Moral Progress 337
from The Day of the Dead 346
Two Principles of Justice 353
Lifeboat Ethics: the Case against Helping the Poor 359
Science and Nature 371
from Physics 374
Cosmological Chart of the Ptolemaic Universe 387
from The Incoherence of the Philosophers 384
from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy 392
from Novum Organum 398
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump 404
from Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest 407
The Obligation to Endure 421
The Universe in a Grain of Sand 429
Education 444
Allegory of the Cave 447
Encouraging Learning 455
Manners to Be Observed by Teachers and Students 463
Pictures 471
from Emile, or On Education 479
from the New England Primer 491
On National Education 495
Learning to Read 506
from Knowledge Its Own End 513
Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God 522
The Banking Concept of Education 530
Language and Rhetoric 536
from Gorgias 539
from Rhetoric 550
The Difficulties of Persuasion 557
from the Nyaya Sutras 563
from On Rhetorical Invention 570
from Institutio Oratoria 576
Freedom of Speech 582
from A Rhetoric of Motives 585
Language and the Destiny of Man 592
Population Policy 601
How to Tame a Wild Tongue 604
Nobody Mean More to Me than You, and the Future Life of Willie Jordan 616
A Guide to Reading and Writing
Reading Ideas 635
Prereading 636
Annotating 639
Identifying Patterns 642
Reading Visual Texts 644
Summarizing 647
Reading with a Critical Eye 648
Generating Ideas 652
Considering Expectations 653
Exploring Your Topic 657
Achieving Subtlety 660
Structuring Ideas 664
Thesis Statements 665
Introductions 669
Transitions 672
Conclusions 677
Supporting Ideas 680
Supporting Claims with Evidence 681
Logos: Appeals to Logic and Reason 683
Pathos: Appeals to Emotion 692
Ethos: The Writer's Appeal 694
Anticipating Counterarguments 697
Synthesizing Ideas 699
Summarizing Multiple Sources 700
Comparing and Contrasting 701
Finding Themes and Patterns 703
Synthesizing Ideas to Form Your Own Argument 707
Incorporating Ideas 773
Finding Sources 714
Evaluating Sources 716
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing 718
Documenting Sources 723
Sample Documented Essay (MLA Format) 730
Revising, Rewriting, and Editing 735
Permissions Acknowledgments 737
Index 741
