Global Perspectives on Society

Your class readings for GPS are located in the GPS reader. You're expected to bring the reader to class, and do our class readings using that reader.

The sources listed on this page show the class readings from your GPS reader in context as an original publication. When the class reading is a smaller selection or chapter from within a larger text, you can use this list to access the full text. This might be helpful if you want to read more beyond the class reading, or if you're curious about what the other chapters in a book are about.

Some of these sources are available online, and some are print books that you can find on the shelf. In most cases the library source linked here is the same edition used in your class readings, with a few other options linked if you're interested.

Mythic Origins

For another version see 老子 / [老子] ; 亚瑟・韦利英译 ; 陈鼓应今译 ; 傅惠生校注 = Laozi / translated into English by Arthur Waley ; translated into modern Chinse by Chen Gusheng ; revised and annotated by Fu Huisheng.; Laozi.

Stories of Creation

Ethical Dilemmas

For another version see 论语 = The analects / Confucius ; translated into English by Arthur Waley ; translated into modern Chinese by 杨伯峻.; Lun yu = The analects.

The Problem of Evil

For another version see Nietzsche: 'On the genealogy of morality' and other writings student edition.

Managing Emotions

For another version, see The Platform sutra of the Sixth Patriarch : the text of the Tun-huang manuscript.

Rationalizing Madness

Controlling Instinct

Utopian Visions

For another version, see The rights of infants; or, the imprescriptable right of mothers to such a share of the elements as is sufficient to enable them to suckle and bring up their young in a dialogue between the aristocracy and a mother of children. To which are added, by way of preface and appendix, strictures on Paine's Agrarian justice.

The Culture of Progress

You can read more from Kang Youwei in Ta T'ung Shu : the one-world philosophy of K'ang Yu-Wei.

Biological Evolution

Machinic Evolution