Searching for Great Ideas: Readings Past and Present
1. Searching for Great Ideas: The Reading and Writng Process. 2. Confronting History: The Question of Moral Decline. 3. The Uses of History: How We Learn From The Past. 4. Spirituality and Religion: Monotheism and Western Culture. 5. Philosophy and Rationality. 6. The Scientific Revolution. 7. Democracy: The Pursuit of Liberty and Public Virtue. 8. Economics and Social Class. 9. The Arts and Humanities. 10. Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and the Democratic Ideal. 11. Technology, Postmodernism, and the Cyberfuture: Turning in the Widening Gyre.