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Can the greatness of individuals be decided by those who live after them or by their contemporaries? Their contemporaries may share the same values with them of the same era. However, I fundamentally agree that the greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them. Time is the best way to justify individuals’ greatness. The later generations have a more objective and accurate judgment on the individuals than their contemporaries.
Later generations may not be influenced by the 【the去掉】some kind of interests and other facts of themselves【改成their personal interests and stakes会好些,other facts 不明确】. However,【这两句应该是并列不是转折吧】 the contemporaries' judgments are easily affected by their subjective opinions. For example, Socrates, a 【the】great Greek philosopher, was sentenced to death, just because he announced his philosophical ideas in public, which offended the authority's interests【offend authority】. Then and there Socrates' ideas were not accepted by his contemporaries and he was even regarded as a criminal. Nevertheless, now things have changed that【and】 people are【have】 thoroughly recognized his ideas and consider him as one of the greatest philosophers. Thus, later generations have more impartial judgments on the greatness of our ancestors, which indicates that the contemporaries have a limited judgments that may lead them to unwarranted conclusions.
The contemporaries that lived in the same social circumstances and era even space with the individuals we judge of are readily influenced by the social trends of that time. In this case their judgments are not equitable, sometimes even incorrect. For instance, in the Middle Ages the ecclesiae claimed that all witches, considered as evil, should be burned to death. Then adherents throughout Europe began to franticly slaughter those women that they considered as witches no matter what the women really were. People of that time thought what the ecclesiae decided were all correct and advocated without any doubts regardless how ridiculer decisions they made. Obviously, present people are definitely opposed to what the ecclesiae decided at that time and regard the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages, during which the truth was distorted and humanity was neglected. Therefore, the later generations have a more accurate and equitable judgments on the previous individuals without the influences of social elements of that time.【body1和body2其实是一回事情吧,2是1的一部分,这部分结构应该再安排一下哦】
The later generations judge the former individuals during a long【改成comparatively long 比较好,题目并没说是经过很长时间以后,说不定只是他死后没几年】 period of time throughout the history, by contrast to the contemporaries; their conclusions may have more present meanings. As Posner, the famous founder of law and literature movements, concludes that in the literary history 【only whose works 】are appreciated, remembered and inherited generation by generation are real masterpieces. Take Jade as an example. His works were regarded as masterpieces by his contemporaries, while presently what he wrote is not accepted by most of us. With his works becoming to be forgotten【不太通】, Jade is getting to【get to不是持续动作】 lose the honor of master.【这里要说明他的作品确实没有价值,而不是说后人不欣赏就说明它不好后人的判断也有可能是错的】 Thus, contrary to the contemporaries, the later generations' judgments have more significant modern meanings, which may instruct us to have a better understanding of our previous individuals.
In sum up, the judgments of contemporaries are not objective and impartial due to different influences of the standards or authorities of their time. With the evaluating of the history modern people may have a more objective, fair and significant judgments of our ancestors.
条理很清楚,就是body3好像不够充实 |
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