高迪迪編著的《西方文化經典英文教程》旨在指
導學生通過對古希臘羅馬古典時期至中世紀、文藝復
興、宗教改革、啟蒙運動、科學革命，直至現代多元
主義和全球化時代西方文化經典原著節選篇章的閱讀
和分析，為西方文化產生、演進和影響等方面勾勒出
較為清楚的價值和發展曲線。在學習西方著作的同時
，對西方思想和價值理念進行認識和批判。並對西方
文明發展曾產生重大影響的歷史文化事件進行分析，
結合現代中國實際，提出自己對具體問題的認識和看
法。

Chapter One: The Greek Culture
1: The Odyssey by Homer
2: Poetics by Aristotle
Chapter Two: The Roman Culture
1: Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar
2: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Chapter Three: The Hebrew Culture
1: Genes/s from The Hebrew Bible
2: The Ten Commandments by Moses
Chapter Four: The Christian Culture
1: Matthew from The New Testament
2: The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
Chapter Five: Chinese Attractions
1: An Interpretive Essay on The Ming Dynasty Comes to Power by Lung-Kee Sun
2: The Travels of Marco Polo by Rustichello da Pisa
Chapter Six: The European Ethics
1: To Marcus TuUius Cicero by Francis Petrarch
2: The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
Chapter Seven: The European Expansion
1: Treaty between Spain and Portugal concluded at Tordesillas by Spain and Portugal
2: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Chapter Eight: The Protestant Reformation
1: Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Martin Luther
2: Decrees of the Council of Trent
Chapter Nine: The West Uprising after Renaissance
1: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
2: The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Chapter Ten: The Scientific Revolution
1: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus
2:The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Chapter Eleven: The Enlightenment
1: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
2: Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire
Chapter Twelve: American Revolution
1: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen by the National Assembly of France
2: The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
Chapter Thirteen: Socialism and Communism
1: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2: Capital: Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Chapter Fourteen: Mniticnituralism and Globalism
1: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington
2: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
References
Acknowledgements