World of Ideas, 9th Edition
PRCC, ENG1113, 2013
World of Ideas Reading for Journaling Assignments
http://bedfordstmartins.com/worldofideas/epages
Introductory Reading
“Evaluating Ideas,” 1-11
"Writing About Ideas," 13-50
Part 1 - Democracy, 51
Only the 37 essays in blue text are required reading and journaling. The other
reading assignments (i.e. “Evaluating Ideas”, pages 1-11, “Writing About Ideas”,
page 13-50) do not require you to do any writing about them in the journal.
ESSAY 1
Aristotle, "Democracy and Oligarchy", 59
The Founding Fathers, "The Constitution of the United States of America", 75
James Madison, "Federalist No. 51: On the Separation of Departments of Power",109
Alexis De Tocqueville, "Government by Democracy in America", 121
Carl Becker, “Ideal Democracy”, 143
Julius K Nyerere, "One-Party Government", 165
Benazir Bhutto, "Islam and Democracy", 177
Stephen L Carter, "The Separation of Church and State", online
Part 2 - Government, 195
Lao-Tzu, "Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching", 203
Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Qualities of the Prince," 219
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The Origin of Civil Society," 237
Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence," 259
Elizabeth Cady Stanton; “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” 269
Hannah Arendt, "Total Domination", 279
Marcus Tullius Cicero, “The Defense of Injustice”, online
Part 3 - Ethics & Morality, 293 ESSAY 2
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," 301
Frederick Douglass, from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave", 327
Friedrich Nietzsche, "Morality as Anti-Nature", 343
Iris Murdoch, "Morality and Religion," 359
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, 375
Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Case Against Character", 397
Michael Gazzaniga, "Toward a Universal Ethics", 415
Aristotle, "The Aim of Man", online
Part 4 - Wealth & Poverty, 433
Adam Smith, "Of the Natural Progress of Opulence," 441
Karl Marx, "The Communist Manifesto", 453
Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth", 481
John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Position of Poverty," 405
Robert Reich, "Why the Rich are Getting Richer, and the Poor, Poorer," 419
Milton and Rose Friedman, "Created Equal", online
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World of Ideas, 9th Edition
PRCC, ENG1113, 2013
Part 5 - Education, 533 ESSAY 3
Hsun Tsu, "Encouraging Learning", 543
John Dewey, "Thinking in Education", 555
Maria Montessori, "The Montessori Method", 571
Carter G Woodson, "The Mis-Education of the Negro", 587
Jonathan Kozol, "The Uses of 'Diversity'", 605
Howard Gardner, "A Rounded Version, The Theory of Multiple Intelligences," 619
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "On Education," online
Part 6 - Gender and Culture, 645 ESSAY 4
Mary Wallstonecraft, “Pernicious Effects Which Arise from Unnatural Distinctions
Established in Society,” 653
John Stuart Mill, "The Subjection of Women", 669
Virginia Woolf, “Shakespeare’s Sister,” 689
Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament”, 707
Germaine Greer, "Masculinity", 725
Judith Butler, from "Undoing Gender", 739
Karen Horney, "The Distrust Between the Sexes", online
Part 7 - Language, 761
Susanne K Langer, "Language", 769
Mario Pei, "Theories of Language Beginning", 783
James Baldwin, "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?", 795
Bill Bryson, "Where Words Come From", 805
Neil Postman, "The Word Weavers / The World Makers", 825
Noam Chomsky, "New Horizons in the Study of Language", 843
Alexander Pope, from "An Essay on Criticism", online
Part 8 - Discoveries and the Mind, 857 ESSAY 5
Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave," 865
Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols," 879
Charles Darwin, "Natural Selection", 897
Sigmund Freud, "The Oedipus Complex", 915
Carl Jung, "The Personal and Collective Unconscious", 927
Rene Descartes, "Fouth Meditation: Of Truth and Error", online
Only the 37 essays in blue text are required reading and journaling. The other
reading assignments (i.e. “Evaluating Ideas”, pages 1-11, “Writing About Ideas”,
page 13-50) do not require you to do any writing about them in the journal.
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