Part 1: Attitude toward life

1.
The Boatman's Advice on Life: Kwon Geun's "Juongseol"
2.
The Value of Ownership and Non-Ownership: The Law of Non-Ownership
3.
A Life Borrowed from Heaven: This Song, "Chamasul"
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Humanity in Extreme Situations: Albert Camus's "The Plague"
5.
A Worthwhile Flight: Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Livingston

Part 2: Human Alienation

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Friendship is not sold in stores: Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince
7.
The Man Who Turned into a Bug: Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
8.
Coexistence with an Absurd Society: Albert Camus's "The Stranger"
9.
From the Form of Having to the Form of Being: Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be
10.
The Alienation of the Masses in Popular Culture: David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd

Part 3: Information Society

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The Prospects and Realization of the Information Society: Alvin Toffler's "The Third Wave"
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The Dark Prospects of Information Control: George Orwell's "1984"
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The Shadow of the Information Society: David Schenk's "Data Smog"
14.
The Dark Side of the Cult of Speed: Pierre Sansault's "The Meaning of Slow Living"
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The Value of Slowness: Milan Kundera's "Slowness"
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The Social Structure of the Information Society: Daniel Bell, The Social Structure of the Information Society

Part 4: Science, Technology, and Philosophy of Science

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A Dystopian Vision of the Future: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
18.
Scientific progress is a paradigm shift: Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
19.
Science as a Part and a Whole of Life: Heisenberg's "The Part and the Whole"
20.
Science as Open Mind: Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
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The Evolving Philosophy of Science: Alan Chalmers's "Contemporary Philosophy of Science"

Part 5 Environment

22.
The Wisdom of Intermediate Technology: Ernst Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful"
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The Sociological Transformation of Physics: Jeremy Rifkin's "Entropy"
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The Earth Itself is One Giant Living Organism: James Lovelock's Gaia
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Nature's Silent Warning: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
26.
Thoughts on an Ecological Life: Kim Jong-cheol's "Gandhi's Spinning Wheel"

Part 6 Bioethics

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Doctors do not give death medicine: Hippocrates, "Medicine"
28.
Animal Bioethics: Peter Singer's Animal Liberation
29.
Is Suicide a Personal Problem?: Émile Durkheim's "Suicide"
30.
A Dialogue Between the Humanities and the Natural Sciences: Do Jeong-il and Choi Jae-cheon's "Conversation"

Part 7: Individuals and Society

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The Relationship Between Man and Society: John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty"
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The epitome of a closed society: George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
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Society is a battleground for all men: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
34.
The Plight of the Social Individual: Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society
35.
A Theory of Modern Liberal Politics: John Locke's "Theory of Government"

Part 8: Conflict and Rational Decision-Making

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Rational Conflict Resolution: Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
37.
Conflicts and Resolutions Among the Common People: Yang Gui-ja's "The People of Wonmi-dong"
38.
The Rise and Fall of Power as Seen Through the Classroom: Yi Mun-yeol's "Our Twisted Hero"
39.
The Right to Resist Government: Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
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Prioritizing the least advantaged: John Rawls, Social Justice

Part 9 Law and Morality

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The ideological foundation of the separation of powers: Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws"
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Between Duty and Humanity: Lü Buwei's "Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals"
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Between Law and Conscience: Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
44.
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion: Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
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A Just Standard Between Law and Humanity: Confucius's Analects

Part 10 Women

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Are Men and Women's Roles Fixed?: Margaret Mead's "Sex and Temperament in Three Tribes"
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Women are the Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
48.
Women's Perception of Women: Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
49.
The Social Background of a Desiring Woman: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
50.
Feminism That Moved Europe: Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Part 11: Learning and the Search for Truth

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Only empirical knowledge is truth: Francis Bacon's "The New Organ"
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I doubt, therefore I am: René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
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The purpose of learning is to perfect virtue: Xun Huang, Xunzi
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The Method of Recognizing Truth: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
55.
An Alternative to the Crisis of the Humanities: Arnold Hauser's "A Social History of Literature and Art"

Part 12 Education

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The Philosophical Foundations of Creative Education Theory: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Emile"
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The Origins of Oriental Gifted Education: Mencius's "Mencius"
58.
A Dialogue of the Whole Person Through Encounter: Martin Buber's "I and Thou"
59.
Experiments in Alternative Education: A.
S. Neill, Summerhill
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Education for the Oppressed: Paulo Freire's Pedagogy
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The Revenge of Digital Education: Neil Postman's "The End of Education"

Part 13: Humans and the Economy

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The Invisible Hand: Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
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Christianity and Capitalism: Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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The Shadow of Globalization: Martin Schumann's "The Globalization Trap"
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Globalization is Global Plunder: Anthony Giddens, The Galloping World
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Beyond Capitalist Life: The Nearings' "A Harmonious Life"

Part 14 Culture

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Cannibalism: Levi-Strauss's Tristram Tropics
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Western Perspectives on the East: Edward Said's Orientalism
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A Perspective on the Power of Culture: Joseph Nye's "Soft Power"
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A Country Where the Entire Country is a Museum: Yoo Hong-jun's "My Cultural Heritage Tour"
71.
Geographic Elements of Cultural Pluralism: Jeremy Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel

Part 15 History

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A Look at History: Jawaharlal Nehru's "A Journey Through World History"
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A Masterpiece of Civilizational Historicism: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History
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How to Read History with Humanity at the Center: Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian
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History is a struggle between the self and the non-self: Shin Chae-ho's "Ancient History of Joseon"
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A classic of modern rational historicism: Edward Carr's "What is History?"

Part 16: Critique of Modern Reason

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The Distinction between Subject and Object in Modernity: René Descartes's Meditations
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A Critique of Instrumental Reason: Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man"
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Critical Reason in Mass Society: Adorno? Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment
80.
The Rationality and Irrationality of Fast Food: George Ritzer's McDonald's and McDonaldization
81.
A Warning Against the New Modernity: Park Yi-moon, Ecological Rationality and Asian Philosophy

Part 17 Art

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What is the purpose of art?: Tolstoy's "What is Art?"
83.
What is the Use of Art?: Jeong Yak-yong, "On Music"
84.
Between Artistic Spirit and Reality: Hwang Sun-won's "The Old Man Who Poisons"
85.
A Bright Eye for Reading Western Art History: Ernst Gombrich's "A History of Western Art"
86.
Horizons of Art Appreciation: Choi Sun-woo, "Leaning on the Curved Column of the Muryangsujeon Hall"

Part 18 Minorities and Human Rights

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Prejudice Against Difference: Tahar Ben Jelloun's "Racism, the Colors of Savagery"
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A literary masterpiece that reads each other's differences: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
89.
Perspectives on Minority Issues: Park Jae-dong et al., "Saisiot"
90.
Beautiful Soul and Body: Jang Young-hee's "Once in My Life"

Part 19 International Relations

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Traces of the Cold War: Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations
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The Possibility of Civilization Coexistence: Harald Müller's "The Coexistence of Civilizations"
93.
Suggestions for the Coexistence of Civilizations: Seyyed Mohammad Khatami's "Dialogue of Civilizations"
94.
The Prospects of American Hegemony Strategy: Immanuel Wallerstein, The Decline of American Hegemony
95.
A Philosopher's Theory of World Peace: Immanuel Kant's "Towards Perpetual Peace"

Part 20 Language and the Media

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The Relationship between Language and Mind: Heo Woong, "Words and Thoughts"
97.
Reflections on the Limits of Language: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
98.
Philosophical Problems Concerning the Relationship Between Language and the Press: Bertrand Russell's "Problems of Philosophy"
99.
Bright Thoughts on Sentences: Lee Tae-jun's "Sentence Strengthening"
100.
The Nature of Modern Journalism and Media: Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

Essay writing is very important not only for college admission but also for employment at large corporations.

To become a new employee at Samsung Group, you must pass the Samsung Aptitude Test (SSAT), also known as the Samsung Exam. To prepare for the SSAT, some people purchase reference books or even take expensive private tutoring.
Samsung revived the document screening process to address this issue.
A Samsung official said that the core of the document screening is the self-introduction letter.
How logically you write your self-introduction is the key to passing the document screening.


College students end up writing a lot of papers, whether reports or theses, before they graduate.
The problem is that the writing they do not have proper logic and sentence structure.
The logic that should be moving towards the topic often goes astray, or even deviates from the topic altogether and heads in the wrong direction.
Even if you correct the sentence to some extent by studying grammar, what about the logic that should penetrate the point and lead to the topic?
The same goes for the essay test that high school seniors must take.

Writing such as self-introductions, reports, theses, and essay exams is essentially writing based on coherent logic, or in other words, it is an essay.
An essay is an expression of one's thoughts in writing.
To write, you need material.
All things in the world are materials.
Everything you see, feel, and think can be written down.
Of course, not all writing is good writing.
A good piece of writing is one that is more organized, systematic, and persuasive.
Good writing resonates.
Classics have been read by people for a long time.
It contains a story worth empathizing with.
Classics are a good format for writing that resonates.

Classics not only serve as a form for writing, but are also useful for developing thinking about issues.
Even those who appear confident in their argumentation often reveal weaknesses in the arguments they use to support their claims.
This is because the fundamental power to develop logic, that is, the philosophy inherent in logic, is lacking.
The classics provide the foundation for that philosophy.

A literacy textbook for the college entrance exam generation who are new to essay writing.

For those who are just starting to write essays, “100 Humanities Classics Every Teenager Should Know for Logical Writing” was planned.
By arranging classics containing various thoughts by topic, we aim to help readers organize their thoughts by reading them little by little.
Classics not only serve as a form for writing, but are also useful for developing thinking about issues.
Even those who appear confident in their argumentation often reveal weaknesses in the arguments they use to support their claims.
This is because the fundamental power to develop logic, that is, the philosophy inherent in logic, is lacking.
The classics provide the foundation for that philosophy.

So, what books should we read? There are quite a few books considered classics, and the topics of discussion are all relevant to human life today.
The scope of the subject is very broad.
Identifying the main points of contention and developing a logical argument would be a valuable resource for those just beginning to write essays. "100 Humanities Classics Every Teenager Should Know for Logical Writing" was written precisely for this need.


This book covers a total of 20 topics, including 'Attitude to Life', 'Human Alienation', 'Bioethics', 'Individual and Society', and 'History', and introduces an average of five classics for each topic.
Each section summarizes the main points and overall plot of the classic.
In addition, we included a 'one-phrase verse' from the classic and a 'one question and answer' on the issue, and introduced the author to deepen understanding.
In particular, it provides guidance for questions regarding the issue and advises on how to develop the logic.
A bonus is the inclusion of a book by the author or related to the topic.

This book is written so that you can understand it in about 5 to 6 minutes on the toilet.
If you read one chapter a day when you have spare time, you can read them all in 100 days.
In the meantime, you will experience considerable logical progress.
Books are food for the mind.
Just as good food nourishes the body, good books enrich the mind.
Classics are 'nutritious' food for the mind.
It is good for your health to eat little by little while digesting.