辜正坤主编的这本《西方学术精华概论》的内容是有选择性地包含西方哲学、文学、历史学、经济学、美学、政治学、社会学、文化人类学、心理学及部分自然科学的最重要的基本原理、概念、焦点命题等等。这些学术成就曾经极大地影响、塑造了西方文化的整体形象。让学生直接用英语的方式接触西方学术语汇，也是增强他们的学术鉴别能力的不可或缺的教学手段。因此，本课程还适当引入英汉术语翻译理论。

Chapter One: Zeno of Elea and His Paradoxes

Chapter Two: Heraclitus of Ephesus and the Logos

Chapter Three: Protagoras and Humanis

Chapter Four: Socrates: Knowledge Is Virtue

Chapter Five: Plato: The World of Being and the World of Becoming

Chapter Six: Aristotle and His Contributions to Western Scholarship

Chapter Seven: St. Augustine and Neo-Platonism

Chapter Eight: Saint Thomas Aquinas and Scholasticism

Chapter Nine: Ockham's Razor and the Law of Economy

Chapter Ten: Francis Bacon and the Empirical Method

Chapter Eleven: Thomas Hobbes and Political Philosophy

Chapter Twelve: Rene Descartes and Rationalism

Chapter Thirteen: John Locke: Empiricism and Politics

Chapter Fourteen: Immanuel Kant and Transcendental Idealism

Chapter Fifteen: Arthur Schopenhauer : The World as Will

Chapter Sixteen: Hegel and His Philosophical Contribution

Chapter Seventeen: Husserl and His Phenomenolog

Chapter Eighteen: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard and Existentialism

Chapter Nineteen: Heidegger and His Philosophy of Being

Chapter Twenty: Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism

Chapter Twenty-one: Ludwig Wittgenstein and His "Analytic Philosophy"

Chapter Twenty-Two: Sigmund Freud and His Psychoanalysis

Chapter Twenty-Three: Carl Jung and Lacan: The Freudian Development

Chapter Twenty-Four: Nietzsche: The Wi11 to Power and the Idea of Overmen

Chapter Twenty-Five: Newton-The Man Who Stands on the Shoulders of Gia

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Father of Modem Physics - Einstein And His=mc2

Index