Selected Readings

Table of Contents

I. Journeys

• Preface
• Some Big Questions 
• React and Respond to the Texts
• Bibliographic Suggestions
• Plagiarism

II. Confucius Journeys

• "Renting a Son for New Year" by Zong Lihua
• "Glossary" William Gorvine
• from Mengzi
• from Xunzi 

III. Greek Journeys

• Introducing Socrates and Plato, Peg Falls-Corbitt

• from The Republic (Book VII: 514a-521c), Plato

IV. Islamic Journeys

• The Prophet of Mecca (A Concise History of the Middle East pp. 27-38), Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. 
• Excerpted Sura from the Koran about Human Relations
• The Medina Document, Ali Bulac

V.  Scientific Journey

• Introducing Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, Mark Sutherland
• from The Origin of Species (Introduction, Chapters 3, 4, and 15), Charles Darwin
• from Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes (Chapters 1 and 19), Stephen Jay Gould

VI. Democratic Journeys

• Introducing John Locke, Lawrence Schmidt and Garrett McAinsh
• from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Bk. 2 Ch. 1 sec. 1-2), John Locke
• from Second Treatise of Government (Para. 4-14, 16, 21-33, 40, 123-31, 211-29), John Locke