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第一次写issue,用了一个半小时,以后要限时了,欢迎大家的意见.
36.The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
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When talked about who can decide the inividuals’ greatness, people may find it hard to come to consensus because of their different experiences and dissimilarity values. Some may claim that only the follows after them can make a decision to the individuals greatness, while others advocate that the achievement of individuals should be justice by their contemporaries. But in my opinion, such an issue should depend on a case-by-case analysis, and I am concerned that both contemporaries and descendants can make the decisions for the greatness of individual, the concept of values in the society also play a important role.
First, there is supported that those who live behind can identify some of the greatness more clearly. For example, the Copernicus whit his “the theory revolve around the son”, in his century, was thought to be blasphemed and no one could believe that, the fanatical Christians even boring the scientist called Bruno, who supported the Copernicus, before a cathedral for the heresy. But just as the development of science and technology, when man can get more information from the telescope and other instruments, they funded that the “the theory revolve around the sun” seems to be one of the greatest and useful theories in the century about our universe. It’s give a completed conceptual of the astronomy. That’s to say, some aspect of the science research should take a long time to show their values, that they can’t bring out an instantly affect, so there is need some time to the follows to discover their greatness.
This is also happened in the art and literature realms. Many of the great figures that we admire today died in obscurity, just like Van Gogh. When he alive, no one appreciated his productions. But after he died for years, his pictures were holed in the LIFO museum, selling at an unbelievable high price, nearly everyone of them are see to make a human treasures. How about we think, how about the men live in the Van Gogh’s century thought, no one knows it. So I hard to say that some of the great people are real go ahead of their times that only take a decades, or even centuries that people can fulli wnderstand and evluate their greatness.
Then somebody may asked, just like you said above, there is no contemporaries to decided the human’s greatness, and I will say “NO”. Contemporaries can also make decision for the greatness of individuals. Take the Noble Prize for example, this prize is thought to be the highest honors to the people who are still alive and make outstanding oblations to the mankind. And the decision to give out the prize to who is usually made by the experts contemporaries. So, we can clearly see that, every Noble Prize winner of his own aspect, there greatness are decided by the contemporaries not by the descendant. Mother Teresa, concerned whit the poor, were given the Noble Prize for her kindhearted, Mandela, thought as a famous “solder for freedom”, wined the prize when he leaded the overthrowing racial-discrimination. Honking make the new theory about the universe black hole… Many people show their effort in the society to make it progress just as we can see and realize, so we attain the power to decided their greatness by our experiences. That’s to say not only the descendents but also the contemporaries can make that judgments.
And in finally, I want to say that the two, with their own special viewpoint to mutually their society, can decide both some greatness. Each society have its owe judgment of value, the views are incomparable. Some useless theories in the past may be so wildly used in the modern world, and some outdated today seems to be greatness in the earlier period. The greatness of individuals should not be so easy decided, the man, the society, make the decision together.
Consequently, due to analysis and reasons mentioned above, which some intertwine to form an organic whole and thus become more persuasive than any one of them, we may self arrive at the conclusion that either contemporaries or descendants or both can make decision to the greatness of the individuals, and whose decisions seem better are depended on the greatness self-characteristic. |
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