Issue241 总感觉社会现象方面的比较难写，憋半天才编出一篇

aerozxyUID: 142241

Issue241  
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：60分36秒     515 words
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An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries; the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness are people who belong to a later time.
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The speaker states that people who belong to a later time, rather than those contemporaries are the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness. According to my opinion, neither coeval people nor those in a later time objectively contribute to the evaluation of a person's greatness. A person's greatness should be judged by the history, the civilization progress of human beings.

Although I deny the objectivity of people in the evaluation, it is necessary to state their limitation as critic entities.

Contemporary persons apparently lack the perspective to value the achievements of a person. Influenced by the prevalent thought, wisdom, and ideology of the society, coeval evaluators may not objectively assess the value of some novel ideas or may misdirect the public. When retrospect the history, many cases can show that. When Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist in last century, brought out his audacious theory of Relativism, few scientists could understand it and some even regarded that it was absurd. Not until several decades later did the whole world acknowledge such great achievement.  Also, which is judged by contemporaries as greatness may be turn in to opposite direction in the future. Hitler was once admired by Germans as a great leader, but he brought the whole world into an inferno. Finally he was castigated by all the people including his own citizens. These cases illustrate that coeval views maybe lack the objectivity and it may result in incorrect evaluation.

On the other hand, the contemporaries can not objectively judge an individual's greatness does not means those from a later time would be competent. Human beings as subjective entities always could hardly evaluate something with a comprehensive perspective, since the attitude, the emotion, and the wisdom belong to certain person prevent him from being objective, no matter who he is, where he comes from, and when he lives. In that case, people from a later time have no difference from their forerunners when undertaking an evaluation, since they may make the same mistakes.

Now the question comes that what can objectively judged an individual's greatness. It is the history of human beings, and all the evaluations should be based on whether a certain person has contributed to the civilization of human. As the common wisdom goes " Time is the only criterion of the truth", history, a progress of time and as an objective entity, is the objective criterion of any achievement. Although some great figures may deserve different recognition in diverse period, history would give them the right place they should be according their behaviors. Copernicus' heliocentrism, once contradicted the in-power authorities who supported geocentrism, finally was honored one of the greatest astronomers in history. Although his theory is also incorrect nowadays, the history, not his contemporaries or the descendants, give him the objectively evaluation since he greatly contribute to the development of science.

From the argument above, to objective evaluate an individual's greatness, objective criterion----history should be the key judgment. Any valuation by certain people, no matter whether they are contemporaries or belong to a later time, will result in a subjective one.

jackygaussUID: 147842

看了一下，思路十分清晰，但是我有点问题：最后一个论证段说是“历史决定了个人的伟大与否”，但是，具体是怎样一个过程使得这个判断进行呢？毕竟，历史它不是人啊， 能做判断吗？事实上，归根到底都是人在做判断啊，人是认识时间的主题啊。呵呵，不知道表达清楚没。仅供参考：）
提供一个我的提纲，当然，也参考了其他人的东西。
个人的伟大由哪个时代的人决定要看人们的认知体系能否与个人的伟大性相容。（挺抽象的说）
1。当人们能正确理解伟人的行为时，当代人就可以评价判定。例子：罗斯福、莎士比亚、……等人的成绩都是被当代人就承认的，而且这种判定一直延续到今天。
2。当人们不能理解伟人的行为时，可能只有后来人才可以判定了。例子：布鲁诺被烧，爱因斯坦的相对论的成绩没被当时承认，而是被稍后的人才肯定的。
3。但是，当同代人错误地理解伟人的行为时，还是要由后代决定。如：毛泽东在文革说被推倒过高的地位，而后代人却可以给出相对正确的评价。
题目错在only这个词上。
不知道对你有用否。：）

aerozxyUID: 142241

的确，body3写着写着就感觉自己好像在绕圈子了！
这篇文章写了一下午，开始是各打五十大板，后来
改成全部否定了！

jackygaussUID: 147842

呵呵，反正能自圆其说就OK了。