issue73【1106G】gelivable小组 第4次作业

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The speaker asserts that imagination is important in most professions and academic fields and it seems unreasonable to emphasis on knowledge. While I concede that in certain fields we are well served by cultivating imagination , in most area it is by nurturing intellect rather than creativity that we grasp our subject, in sequence, improve the well-being of society.

I agree the speaker insofar as emphasis on imagination and creativity can promote the progress in discipline such as art. After all, artistic inspiration and ideas spring not from logical but from intensive feelings and emotions which come about through imagination such as love, abomination, sadness, and joy. Moreover, the chief judgement of  the artistic achievement is not in technical skill but rather the psychical resonance and spiritual shock, so a skillful artistic without imagination cannot create a successful opus.

Aside from its practicality in arts, the exploration of imagination has little place in professions and academic fields. If we carry out the exploration of imagination in fields such as Mathematics, what's the difference in academic between a mathematician imaginative or not?Mathematics is a rigorous science based on dogmatic theorem and precise prove, imagination is isolated in this system. Even in other fields such as history, political science and public policy, imagination would play no role. Consider, concepts of justice, fairness which is largely talking about in these area. Although we can easily understand these concepts by imaging the emotions such as impartial, sympathy, on the contrary, these concepts themselves are manifest objective, so imaging which is subjective have little to do with the essence of the highly logical matters. However, the motive of emphasis on knowledge which can promote we approaching the essence of objective and abstract disciplines is apparent.  

Indeed, on a systemic scale excessive emphasis on exploration of our imagination can have deleterious societal consequences.Extreme imaging lead to irrationality in thought and action. The unreasonable and aggressive netizen is the best example. They illogically unstoppable assail in trivial matters, even pretend as the protector of the mother land to abuse the developed country. Obviously, the extreme emotions and lacking of logical and reasoning education are the main causes --- our culture sanctions irrationality and unfettered venting of imaging. The netizen search out the imaginal enemy by their imagination and don't reconsider logically. Furthermore, the phenomenon of aggressive netizen is only one aspect of the exploiting imagination and emotions while suppressing reason, from which demagogues gain and hold power. It is the humanity's most horrific atrocities that this brief essay cannot begin to address.

In sum, although the exploration of imagination can promote fundamentally in limited disciplines such as art, professors and workers , even the whole society are better off by emphasis on knowledge which result reasoning and logical thinking.In a word, I asserts that knowledge is more important than imagination in most fields.