Janaro Custom Index, 7th Edition
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Seventh Edition
Pages 3-39 (Chapter 1), pages 571-600 (Chapter 16), pages 405-441 (Chapter 11), pages 103-137 (Chapter 4)
A
Akhenaton, pharaoh, 407
Al-Ghazali, Islamic philosopher, 435
Alix, Gabriel
Adam and Eve, color plate 19
Amenhotep IV, pharaoh, 404
architecture
The Alhambra, photograph of, 437
The Blue Mosque, photograph of, 435
Aristotle
influence on Maimonides andAquinas, 432
rejection of “nothingness,” 429
the Unmoved Mover, 422–423
B
Bearden, Romare
Mississippi Monday, color plate 15
de Beauvoir, Simone, 593, 595
Beccafumi, Domenico
Fall of the Rebel Angels, color plate 26
Bhagavad-Gita, The, 408
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 127
brahman
in Hinduism, 409–410
Brustein, Robert, 22–23
Bryan,William Jennings, 438
Buddhism, 410–415
the Eightfold Path, 412–413
enlightenment, 412
C
Campbell, Don
The Mozart Effect, 4
Cervantes,Miguel de
Don Quixote, 128
Chekhov, Anton, 110
Christianity
cathedrals, 437
Constantine, 412
Council of Nicea, 429
early Christian theology, 430–431
Jesus
in the four gospels, 430–431
in history, 430
the gospels, 428–429
Maimonides and logical proof of God,
431–432
prophecy of Messiah, 428
Protestantism, 436
Saint Augustine and the problem of
evil, 430–431
St. Paul, 412
conversion, 430
on women in church, 427
Saint Thomas Aquinas, logical proof of
God, 432–433
the Trinity, 427
and women, 477
Ciardi, John, 124
classic defined, 103
computers
e-generation, 33
e-mail, 33
Internet, use of, 22, 196
January, 2000 crisis, 32
meaning of “cyber,” 32
Confucius, 421
and Taoism, 419
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer, 128
The Last of the Mohicans, 28
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 30
critical thinking, 7–8, 14–24, 34–36
defined, 7
guidelines for writing evaluations,
24–27
professional critics, 22–24
Culley, Travis, 34–36
The Immortal Class, 35–36
photograph of, 35
D
Darrow, Clarence, 438
determinism, 572–585
character consistency, 580–581
economic, 577–580
genetics, 583–585
institutional, 575
Dostoevski, Fyodor, 405
E
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 125, 446
epic poetry
the Aeneid, 107–108
Gilgamesh, 105–106
the Iliad, 72, 106–110
the Mahabharata, 127
Escher, M. C.
Rippled Surface, illus. 112
esthetic experience
defined, 5
Euripides, 24
evolution, teaching of, 438
existentialism, 591–598
religious, 592–593
secular, 593–596
Fantasia, 139–140
Feminist issues
George Eliot, 587
George Sand, 587
Schopenhauer on women, 587
Simone de Beauvoir, 593, 595
First Amendment
and Scopes Trial, 438
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The Beautiful and the Damned, 129
The Great Gatsby, 128–132
Tales of the Jazz Age
John Held’s dust jacket for, 130
This Side of Paradise, 129
Freud, Sigmund
free will, 585–600
Fuseli, John Henry, 588–589
The Nightmare, illus. 589
G
Gautama, Siddhartha, 412–415
genetics
and determinism, 583–585
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 410
Golijov, Osvaldo
Oceana, 24
La Pasion SeguinSan Marcos, 23–24
H
Hardy, Thomas, 405
Harlem Renaissance, the, 121–123, 183
Harvey William,
discovery of blood circulation, 28
Heraclitus, 9
Herakles, photograph of, 577
Hillary, Sir Edmund, 34
Hinduism, 74, 408–412
the Bhagavad-Gita, 408
brahman and atman, 411
karma and reincarnation, 74, 411–412
and caste, 415
the Mahabharata, 408
moksha, 411
the Ramayana, 408
Hoff, Benjamin
The Tao of Pooh, 420–421
Homer,
the Iliad, 106–119
humanities
defined, 3
gifts of, 5–12
and science, 27–38
and technology, 31–38
I
Islam, 432–437
the Alhambra, illus. 437
basic principles of, 434
the Blue Mosque, 437, illus. 435
and the classical world, 432
Mohammed
conversion, 412
and eternity, 434
and Gabriel, 433
and Ishmael, 433
and Jesus, 434
and the Qur’an, 434
J
Jackson, Shirley
“The Lottery,” 133–136
James, Henry, 125
James,William
and indeterminism, 587–588
Judaism
biblical influence on culture, 426
The Book of Job, 426, 431
The Book of Jonah, 425
and existentialism, 592–593
Hebrew Bible, 424–428
on free will, 572
Lamentations, 428
on monotheism, 424
Moses, 424, 434
the Torah, 424–425
Moses Maimonides, 432
prophets, 425
Psalms, 424–425
the Ten Commandments, 427, 429, 469
Yom Kippur, 83
K
Klipper, Scott
South Polar Plateau, illus. 136
Kubrick, Stanley, 364–366
and behavioral technology, 582–583
L
Lao-tzu, 417–420
Lenin, Vladimir, 330–331
Luther,Martin
and Protestant Reformation, 436
M
Magritte, René
The Oasis, illus. 138
The Menaced Assassin, color plate 22
masterpiece defined, 103–104
Marx, Karl, 578–580
Maugham,W. Somerset, 133
McCourt, Frank
Angela’s Ashes, 104
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick, 104, 129
Milton, John
Paradise Lost, 436
monotheism
in Christianity, 429
in Egypt, 406–407
in Hebrew Bible, 424–428
in Islam, 433
mythology, 9
N
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 438
Noguchi, Isamu
photograph of The Water Stone, 13
Nolde, Emil
The Last Supper, color plate 14
P
Plato
The Academy, 422
and death of Socrates, 421–422
on the religion of Socrates, 421
The Republic, 421
Poe, Edgar Allan, 133
poetry, 110–127
[Complete poems are cited.]
Blake,William, 118–121
“The Divine Image,” 438–439
“The Lamb,” 120
“The Tiger,” 120–121
Blumenthal,Michael
“The Tip of the Iceberg,” 126
Catullus, 110
Crane, Stephen
“I saw a man pursuing the horizon,”599
Dickinson, Emily
“After great pain a formal feeling
comes,” 122
Donne, John, 520
“Batter my heart, three-personed
God,” 116–117
haiku, 117–118
Matsuo Basho, 118
Kabayashi Issa, 118
Johnson, GeorgiaDouglas, 123–124
“Black Woman,” 124
Lorca, Frederico Garcia, 113–114
“Llagas de amor,” 114
MacLeish, Archibald, 485
“Ars Poetica,” 125
Millay, Edna St.Vincent
“Time does not bring relief; you all
have lied,” 117
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 111–113
“I find no peace, and all my war isdone,” 114
Sappho, 110
Shakespeare,William, 73, 115–116
“When in disgrace with fortune and
men’s eyes,” 115
Wordsworth,William, 439
P
Puccini, Giacomo
Madame Butterfly, 20
R
Ravel,Maurice, 67, 231
La Valse, 444
Renaissance, the, 27–29
Richardson, Samuel
Pamela, 128
S
Sanskrit alphabet, 408
Sartre, Jean-Paul
secular existentialism, 593–595
Satan
Schopenhauer, Arthur
on the will, 586–587
Scopes, John, 438
Shakespeare,William,
(see also poetry)
Hamlet, 444
Skinner, B. F.
behaviorism, 581–582
Smith, Adam, 579
sociobiology, 584–585
T
Taoism, 417–421
illus. 419
The Tao of Pooh, 420–421
Tao Te Ching, 417–422, 525
Tutenkhamen, pharaoh, 407
Twain,Mark
Huckleberry Finn, 129
U
Upanishads, the, 411
Utopia
B. F. Skinner on, 582
V
Virgil
the Aeneid, 107–108
Table of Contents for Reference
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Seventh Edition
Part I
You and the Humanities 1
Chapter 1
The Art of Thinking Critically 3
Overview 3
Gifts of the Humanities 5
Esthetic Pleasure 5
Critical Thinking 6
Language 8
Myths 9
A Sense of the Past 9
Broader Understanding 10
A Man with No Time for Beauty 12
Being Aware 14
The Art of Critical Thinking 14
Problem Solving 15
Reasoning, Not Rationalizing 17
Challenging Assumptions 17
Looking for Principles 18
Recognizing Contexts 19
A Guide to Critical Viewing 22
What Makes a Good Professional Critic? 22
Becoming a Critic Yourself 24
The Humanities in a Scientific World 27
Leonardo 27
Galileo 30
The Growth of Technology 31
Fragmentation and Critical Thinking 33
The Automobile and the Bicycle Humanist 34
Masters, Not Slaves 36
Make Technology Work for You 37
Epilogue 39
Topics for Writing and Discussion 39
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Seventh Edition
Chapter 16
Freedom 571
Overview 571
Determinism:The View That All People
Are Limited in Their Choices 573
Institutional Determinism 575
Economic Determinism 577
Character Consistency 580
Behaviorism 581
Genetics 583
Sociobiology 584
Possibilities for Freedom 585
The Will 586
Regret and Relief 587
Psychoanalysis 588
Existentialism 591
Religious Existentialism 592
Secular Existentialism 593
Freedom as Self-Imposed Limitations 597
Epilogue 598
Topics for Writing and Discussion 600
Chapter 11
Religion 405
Overview 405
The Belief in Many Gods 406
Egypt 406
Hinduism 408
Greek and Roman Polytheism 410
The Belief in an Impersonal Divinity 411
Buddhism 412
Taoism 417
Socrates and Plato 421
Aristotle’s Unmoved Mover 422
The Belief in One God 423
Judaism 424
Christianity 428
Logical Proof 431
Islam 433
The Protestant Reformation 436
Religion and the Humanities 436
Epilogue 440
Topics for Writing and Discussion 441
Part III
Our Creativity
Chapter 4
Literature 103
Overview 103
Literature as History 104
The Basic Literary Impulse: Identity 105
An Early Masterpiece: Homer’s Iliad 106
Poetry 110
Structured Forms:The Sonnet and the Haiku 111
Simple Forms, Profound Meaning: William Blake 118
Modern Poets 121
The Novel 127
Early Western Novels 127
An American Classic: Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby 128
The Short Story 132
Magazine Fiction 133
A Short Story Masterpiece: Shirley Jackson’s
“The Lottery” 133
Epilogue 136
Topics for Writing and Discussion 137