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发表于 2007-8-9 20:01:53 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE223 - "The true value of a civilization is reflected in its artistic creations rather than in its scientific accomplishments."

I could only agree insofar that art creations are very important to evaluate a civilization's value, but we should pay considerable attention to the scientific accomplishments, which is parallel to art creations deserving the commensurable emphasize.

The world can be divided into the two parts equally, which are the subjective part and the objective part.  This rule can be applied similarly to the individuals, societies. So do civilizations. The value of a civilization can only be judged according to the both parts of it. Overstating one side of it can not be regarded appropriate.

The great art creations always arise the deep, subtle emotion in your heart and cause a fierce resonation with your soul. How could art gain such a heartshaking power? Art, according to Freud's judgement on the art, in essence, is a kind of release of individual lust. I can not agree more.  Art is a medium through what the artists express their emotions, passions and desires. That is where the amazing power come from. So art sublimes to the eternal expressing form, consistent with the human instinct developed in the immemorial time, of subjective sentiment. So, the art creations, as the subjective part of the civilization, could be used as a touch-stone to appraise the value of civilization.

But, merely relying on the art creation is not enough for us to make a judgement.  Since the nature of humanity from the ancient age has changed a lot, which can be justified by the perpetual badgering of prejudices, discriminations, wars and massacre, the subject of the art creations do not differ largely. The value of a prehistory could actually the same with the modern art. Can we just simply conclude that the civilization is nearly the same? No, of course, so we have to introduce some new norm to appraise together.

Then we turn to the scientific accomplishment. Science, as we all known, bases it gorgeous structure on the philosophical foundation, epistemology, the theory we used to explore and understand the world through reasoning and critical thinking. It is the symbol of rationality, just the contrary side of the emotion, which reflects the objective side of the civilization. It really poses its tremendous impact on the variety societies in different time. The scientific accomplishments have greatly changed society, not only in the quality of life, but in the ethos of the society as well. For example, the Internet technology not only makes it convenience to access to hung amount of data and information, but also cause the moral problems and the changing of people’s value. So the profound influence on the societies makes it justifiable for us to underscore the importance of scientific accomplishments to the extent as a criterion to evaluate a society.
Similarly, the scientific accomplishments are not enough to judge a society alone. Anyway, the scientific accomplishments are just knowledge and technologies avoid of humanity. A scientific accomplishment can be a beneficial thing as well as a dissolving power commanded by a depraved intellectual. A society flourishes in the scientific field while lacking humanism can not be distinct feature to make it unique. It is the neutral characteristic of the scientific accomplishment that foredooms the limitation of this standard.

In sum, the true value of a society can only be understood on both sides of it artistic creations and scientific accomplishment.

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