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发表于 2007-2-15 18:08:34
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自我感觉论证得不深入,虚心接受指教
Issue36: “The greatness of individuals canbe decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.”
个人是否伟大不应该由他们的同代人,而应由后代人来做评价。
1. 后代人可以评价一个人是否是伟人,比如梵高,在他生活的时期并没有被认为是伟大的艺术家,而现在却反之
2. 但是,后代人仅仅是通过历史记载或传说来进行评价,不具有客观性
3. 同时我们也不能低估同代人做出的评价
因此,在对一个人是否是伟人的时候我们应该平衡当代人和后人的评价
Greatness people, whether in academia,artic or political, are discussed and investigated by their contemporaries and descendants.The author asserts that only those who live after them can determinate theseindividuals to be a greatness one, but not those who live with them at the sametime. I feel it is difficult to me to acclaim this statement.
Admittedly, people who live after theperson have capability to decide whether they are greatness or not. A simpleexample can illustrate the phenomenon perfectly. Van Goth, who lived in 18th,was not accolade as a greatness artist at all; furthermore, his artworks evencannot sell one piece out. His abstractness characteristic was thought to beweirdness and unimaginable. Nowadays, Van Goth is regarded as the greatness onein artistic field; and many people are proud of owing one piece of his product.Besides, many drawers are interested in imitating his method to draw one thingand sense abstractly. It is not hard to realize two different conditions, onein age that Van Goth lived and another is times after he lived, that hiscontemporaries cannot found out the greatness of him while people who liveafter his century are strongly convulsed by his fantastic work. In a word, theadvantage of some person cannot be point out in a short time in some cases.
However, to decide whether the person is a giantor not, people who live after them merely through some depictions in historytextbooks, legends among people, which provide ambiguous and even not truthdescription about the person. In respect of this situation, populace maybe misledby those recordation to give the person a objective evaluation or only fewpeople know the truth about it. Ci Xi, who was the most powerful women in China’s history,regarded as a apotheosis of fighting for rights of women by public in nowadays.Compared with it, few historian assist that she is not a greatness one aspopulace’ think. She killed many people, even his children, to scramble for thepower that a Kaiser should have. Moreover, she spent hundreds of thousandsmoney to construct her grave when china was aggressed. It is lack ofacknowledge of history and artistic to realize the actual condition of the greatnessof individuals.
Furthermore, we should not underestimate theappraisement given by contemporaries of the greatness one we thought to be. Firstly,the contemporaries are more acquiesce about him\her than people live in the eraafter the greatness one. They knew more details about his or her character, moral,and even habits of living. All of these are essential elements to determine agreat people. Secondly, people in nowadays probably assist different standardof every aspect with people lived in lots of decades ago. Thus, a person weregarded to be a greatness one maybe spurned under the moral ambience thatexist in the era that the person lived.[这段写得极度不好。。。]
To sum up, the greatness of individualcannot merely decide by contemporaries or people who live after them. We shouldbalance the opinion both contemporaries and generates to give an objectivestatement about the person to decide he\she is greatness or not. |
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