走近西方文明 本书特色
《走近西方文明》：21世纪大学英语选修课系列教材。
走近西方文明 目录
Unit 1 Ancient GreeceUnit 2 Ancient RomeUnit 3 ChristianityUnit 4 The Middle AgesUnit 5 RenaissanceUnit 6 ReformationUnit 7 Absolutism and ConstitutionalismUnit 8 EnlightenmentUnit 9 American RevolutionUnit 10 French Revolution and NapoleonlUnit 11 The Industrial RevolutionUnit 12 RomanticismUnit 13 RealismUnit 14 NaturalismUnit 15 ModernismUnit 16 Western Civilation in a Global Age
走近西方文明 节选
《走近西方文明》在全球化进程快速推进的大环境下，我国对高等教育质量与人才培养模式提出了更高的要求。在这新的历史转型期，大学英语教育怎样在各个层面与时代的发展接轨，提升广大学生适应国际竞争的能力，发挥英语在文化交流和经济发展中的桥梁作用，从而满足当前我国各项建设的迫切需要，是摆在广大英语教育工作者面前亟待解决的问题。面对这一时代性课题，我们需要对大学英语课程的设置进行多方位的思考。我们发现传统的主体课程由于种种限制，造成一些学科点的缺失。难以使学生在人文精神的塑造和英语知识的应用两方面获得平衡，而这两点的平衡对于培养时代所需要的综合性语言人才具有重要的意义。因此，在这样的背景下，编写一套符合国情和学生实际的选修课教材，以此弥补当前英语教学的不足就显得尤为必要。
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插图：If a prisoner says "That's a book" he thinks that the word book refers to the very thing he is looking at. But he would be wrong. He's onlylooking at a shadow. The real referent of the word "book" he cannot see.To see it, he would have to turn his head around.Plato's point: the general terms of our language are not names ofthe physical objects that we can see. They are actually names of things thatwe cannot see, things that we can only grasp with the mind.When the prisoners are released, they can turn their heads and seethe real objects. Then they realize their error. What can we do that isanalogous to turning our heads and seeing the causes of the shadows？ Wecan come to grasp the forms with our minds.Plato's aim in The Republic is to describe what is necessary for us toachieve this reflective understanding. But even without it, it remains truethat our very ability to think and to speak depends on the forms. For theterms of the language we use get their meaning by "naming" the Formsthat the objects we perceive participate in.The prisoners may learn what a book is by their experience withshadows of books. But they would be mistaken if they thought that theword "book" refers to something that any of them has ever seen. Likewise,we may acquire concepts by our perceptual experience of physical objects.But we would be mistaken if we thought that the concepts that we graspwere on the same level as the things we perceive.
