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Contents

 
THE PHYSICAL NATURE AND EVOLUTION
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
The Descent of Man
E. G. Conklin, Evolution and Democracy
Norbert Luyten, Philosophical Implications of Evolution
Edward Osborne Wilson, On Human Nature
Jane Goodall, Through a Window
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NATURE
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
C.G. Jung, Aion: Phenomenology of the Self
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
B. P. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
THE SOCIAL NATURE
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
Susan B. Anthony, Suffrage and the Working Woman
John Stuart Mill, On the Subjection of Women
Thomas Nixon Carver, Essays ln Social Justice
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
THE SPIRITUAL AND MORAL NATURE
Lao-tzu, Tao-te Ching
Mencius, Works, and Hsun Tzu, Hsun Tzu
Cicero, On The Laws
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration On the Dignity of Man
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul
Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be