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3。28 决战南大 急寻拍友,共同进步
第一次限时成功, 但很混乱
望大家指点
Only those who live after them, not by their contemporaries, can decide the greatness of individuals.
Does greatness of individuals always decide by people live after them or their contemporaries? As my point of view, whether they can be recognized as the great by people in their time or people after them differs from case to case.
Some of great figures in the past, especially in the realm of arts and philosophy, often were wrongly treated by their contemporaries and finally considered as great after decays even centuries. In arts, as history illustrates, many talents artists received unfairly attention in their lives. Van Gough, one of most creative painter in the nineteenth century, was always considered as unsuccessful and unacceptable by his contemporaries. And his works including the famous "heliotrope" was treated as useless and without price. Turn to the history of music, the great composer Beethoven was ignored and considered as hackneyed in his time though he made great contribution to the prosperity of classic music. This is also very often cases in situation of great thinkers , such as Socrates in Greece and Confucius in ancient China.
However, in other cases, may great figures in various aspects of society were immediately recognized and given admiration and reputation soon after their important contribution to the society were made. In the academic world, many scientists receive numerous compliments and recognition when their publication enter into society. Newtown gain his reputation soon after his law of universe come into being. Moreover, his receive noble rank also because of his contribution to the human understanding since his contemporaries realized that. Einstein, as the second significant giant in nature science, also received Noble Prize just after he published the theory of relativity. Admittedly, these people could quickly gain reputation and attention is due to their contribution ,which also quickly influence public life and understanding and change the society in certain ways.
Further, no matter great giants judged by contemporaries or future generations, their greatness have one thing in common, that is the true merits inside their works transcend times and withhold thousands times of question and risks and eventually prove to be beneficial to human society. Many works of great scientists of past, have become the foundation of contemporary academic research and progress, for instance, Copernicus's theory that the universe is in fact have no center at all. This theory has already become astronomers' substratum for pursuing more profound knowledge of outer space. Similarly, although Picasso's painting have considered to be great even he was alive, the true value that make them still in admiration today is the deep and enduring influence to younger artists and also other aspects of society, such as physics have benefit from Picasso's perspectives to nature. In this sense, we could see that the real and perpetual values in the contribution of great figures are the fundamental basis that they could be recognized no matter how long time it would take.
To sum up, in different fields and cases, the greatness of past were often treated different in various times. Nevertheless, the truth and values in their works would ensure them being respected and admired though taking various time. |
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