西方人文思潮是西方文明數千年發展的積累，是西方文化的精華。學習西方思想文化典籍，閱讀西方宗教、政治、社會、經濟、科學、哲學及人文思潮領域里有代表性的論著，有助于學生從宏觀上了解和把握西方人文思潮的發展脈絡，提高對西方歷史文化的整體認識，改善知識結構，提高綜合素質。本書選取古希臘羅馬時期到二十世紀各個時期的經典原著，力求從總體上勾勒出西方人文思想的發展脈絡，反映西方歷史文化的一個側面。在介紹西方思想的同時，本教材提供了相應的中國人文背景，增加了大量圖片，提供盡可能多的背景介紹和大量的中英文注釋，以幫助提高閱讀速度。
新編研究生英語系列教材
"新編研究生英語系列教材"由外教社組織國內10余所重點高校的專家、教授，在廣泛的市場調研和對當前研究生英語數學實際情況進行詳細分析的基礎上，傾聽打造而成！
遵循分類指導和因材施教的原則：《基礎綜合英語》和《學術綜合英語》分別針對起點不同的學習者設計，以幫助學生打好扎實的語言基本功，并順利過渡到學術英語的學習中；多樣化的"選修課"可讓學生根據自己的專業特點、興趣愛好以及時間安排，自由選擇相關課程，培養研究生的英語實際應用能力。
促進語言能力和文化素質的同步提升：強調以學習者為主體，注重對學生自主學習能力的培養，教材體系在幫助學習者提高語言能力同時，亦可提高其人文素養和跨文化交際能力。
立體化的教材編寫模式：綜合教程配套助學光盤和電子教案，可以為學習者提供自主學習的幫助，為教師提供立體化教學的支撐，更能適應現今研究生英語教學的需要
Unit t The Christian Bible
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Genesis
Gospel According to Matthew
Part Three Compare with China
Chinese Creation Stories
Part Four Supplementary Reading
How Is Religion Different from Science and Superstition?
Unit 2 Greek & Roman Sages (1)
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Socrates: The Apology
Plato: The Republic
Part Three Compare with China
The "Axial Age"
Part Four Supplementary Reading
The Teacher as Midwife
Unit 3 Greek & Roman Sages (2)
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Aristotle: The Politics
Cicero: On the Laws
Part Three Compare with China
Great Learning and the Mean
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Cicero Quotes
Unit 4 Medieval Christian Church Fathers
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
St. Augustine: The Enchiridion
St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Contra Gentiles
Part Three Compare with China
Nee-Confucianism and Later Confucian Philosophy
Part Four Supplementary Reading
St. Thomas Aquinas
Unit 5 Renaissance Adventurers
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Christopher Columbus: Journal and Letter
Nicolb Machiavelli: The Prince
Part Three Compare with China
Rise and Fall of 15th Century Chinese Seapower
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Criticism against and Hail for Columbus
Unit 6 Religious Reformation
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Martin Luther: An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Part Three Compare with China
Wang Yangming and Matteo Ricci's Progression to China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
95 Theses by Martin Luther
Unit 7 Modern Scientific Thinking (1)
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Francis Bacon: Novum Organum
Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method
Part Three Compare with China
Matteo Ricci: The Art of Printing
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Calculating Machines in China and Europe in the 17th Century -- The Western View
Unit 8 Modern Scientific Thinking (2)
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Optics
Part Three Compare with China
Development of Science in Ancient China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Critical Thinking
Unit 9 Modern Political science
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
John Locke: Of Civil Government
Part Three Compare with China
Locke Talking about China and the Chinese
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Political Controversies in 17th-Century England
Unit 10 Chassical Liberalism
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Part Three Compare with China
Western Images of China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
The Declaration of Independence
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Unit 11 Anti-Liberalism
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power
Part Three Compare with China
From Western Liberalism to Asian Communitarianism
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Unit i2 Evolutionists
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Thomas Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population
Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (1859)
The Descent of Man
Part Three Compare with China
Warning Voice of Social Darwinism in Early 20th-Century
China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Unit 13 Socialism and Communism
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party
Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism
Part Three Compare with China
Karl Marx on China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Lenin: Marxism and Revisionism
Unlt 4 Early 20th Century: Man &Society
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Sigmund Freud: An Outline of Psychoanalysis
John Dewey: Liberalism and Social Action
Part Three Compare with China
Early Education in China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Freud on the Couch
Unit 15 Science & Religion
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship
Alfred North Whitehead: Science and the Modern World (1925)
Part Three Compare with China
Bertrand Russell: Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Alfred North Whitehead on Education
Unit 16 Man & Woman: Modern Existence
Part One Warm-up Activities
Part Two Basic Readings
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Part Three Compare with China
The First Glimpses of China
Part Four Supplementary Reading
Existentialism
