issue153 【7\8\9\10】 7.26(第五次作业) by warboy

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153"Students should bring a certain skepticism to whatever they study. They should question what they are taught instead of accepting it passively."

The statement asserts that to suspect whatever they study is essentially necessary for students who should not just accept it passively. I strongly agree with the speaker’s statement, after all the skeptical spirit is main power to promote the development of science and democracy system. Yet, the speaker need not extent the skeptical object thing, while ignore the fundamental fact that something are objective and undoubted.

As Clarence Darrow said: as long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, if no man rebelled, those would last forever. In human society full of unfair affair and violence, we should keep skeptical mind to treat that ostensibly reasonable issue, after which some violence and evil often be hidden. Consider the violator of public morality, such as Hitler, who asserted that the purpose of so evil policy to slaughter Jew and deprive their possession is that just recover the German’s economy. Although, in retrospect, his assertion was ridiculous, yet, few have courage to deny it in that time. So passively accepted anything may be the beginning of country or race depraving. To the contrary, a leader with skepticism will bring up more flouring country and democratic society, such as the President Lincoln who leaded Civil War against the ostensibly justifiable racism as a result of a more freedom and less prejudiced American society.

When it comes to science, the skepticism as nature of scientific explore is indispensable part of scientist. The scientific progress is, in certain extent, process that the scientist doubt and challenge the predecessors’ theory and principle, then put forward novel one. From the Galileo’s gravity against Aristotle’s assumption of gravity to the Einstein’srelativity theory challenging the Newton’s classic space-time theory, there is full of the voice: skeptical. So as a real scientist firstly must be a skeptic, that is, the scientists without skepticism will alternative the science of enemy. The apt illustration involves that he Einstein’s attitude toward the modern quantum mechanics actually prevented the development of the modern physics. And his behavior entirely manifest that his excessive self-assertion resulted form lack of skeptical.

Nevertheless, others such as truth could not be questioned, for the reason that they are essence of constitution of our world and society. Any skepticism involved them must induce us to mireconfusion(陷入混论？). Moreover, that will undermine the present underpinning of world and society. For example, the Nietzsche’s elite theory that doubt the democratic system becomes the tools, on which the demagogues deceive and manipulate people based.

In sum, the skepticism is of vital importance to us. The development of science and society is affirmatively up to whether the skeptics are able to be accepted and toleranced, moreover, whether those defeat the old theory and principle and go further to build new one. However, we must be circumspect about the skepticism involved objective things, which will destroy and mislead our correct mind about the society. Lack  of such things, our life would be nonsensical.      

[ 本帖最后由 warboy 于 2008-7-27 10:43 编辑 ]

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明天把修改贴上来
因为要到单位打印出来慢慢看

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谈一点看法：

这篇文章是否应该紧扣'STUDENTS'来论述？
根据你文章的分析，读者是否可能提出这样的想法：社会和科技的发展是需要质疑，但和学生有什么关系？这些都是政治家、科学家的事情，学生们为什么要质疑呢？

第四段的主题比较难把握，什么能质疑什么不能质疑是一个很模糊的判断。我感觉世上是没有什么不能质疑的，只不过就是质疑的对错，或者质疑有没有结果的问题了。中世纪好多想法都认为是truth啊，现在不是都推翻了吗？第三段中举的科学的例子，在当时有些理论被认为是truth，现在都得到了完善。所以我觉得这段有漏洞，容易被反驳。

欢迎继续讨论。

The statement asserts that to suspect whatever they study is essentially necessary for students who should not just accept it passively. I strongly agree with the speaker’s statement, after all the skeptical spirit is main power to promote the development of science and democracy system. Yet, the speaker need not extent the skeptical object thing（是否多余了？）, while ignore the fundamental fact that something are objective and undoubted.（这里有个问题，你已经agree了speaker了，其中包括他的whatever,现在又觉得他extent了，好像矛盾了吧。）

As Clarence Darrow said: as long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, if no man rebelled, those would last forever. In human society full of unfair affair and violence, we should keep skeptical mind to treat that ostensibly reasonable issue, after which some violence and evil often be hidden. Consider the violator of public morality, such as Hitler, who asserted that the purpose of so evil policy to slaughter Jew and deprive their possession is that just recover the German’s economy. Although, in retrospect, his assertion was ridiculous, yet（although和yet不能同时出现）, few have courage to deny it in that time. So passively accepted anything may be the beginning of country or race depraving. To the contrary, a leader with skepticism will bring up more flouring country and democratic society, such as the President Lincoln who leaded Civil War against the ostensibly justifiable racism as a result of a more freedom and less prejudiced American society.

When it comes to science, the skepticism as nature of scientific explore is indispensable part of scientist. The scientific progress is, in certain extent, process that the scientist doubt and challenge the predecessors’ theory and principle, then put forward novel one. From the Galileo’s gravity against Aristotle’s assumption of gravity to the Einstein’srelativity theory challenging the Newton’s classic space-time theory, there is full of the voice: skeptical（应该用名词形式吧）. So as a real scientist firstly must be a skeptic, that is, the scientists without skepticism will alternative the science of enemy. The apt illustration involves that he Einstein’s attitude toward the modern quantum mechanics actually prevented the development of（from？） the modern physics. And his behavior entirely manifest that his excessive self-assertion resulted form（from？） lack of skeptical.

Nevertheless, others such as truth could not be questioned, for the reason that they are essence of constitution of our world and society. Any skepticism involved them（指代有些模糊） must induce us to mireconfusion(陷入混论？). Moreover, that will undermine the present underpinning of world and society. For example, the Nietzsche’s elite theory that doubt the democratic system becomes the tools, on which the demagogues deceive and manipulate people based.

In sum, the skepticism is of vital importance to us. The development of science and society is affirmatively up to whether the skeptics are able to be accepted and toleranced, moreover, whether those defeat the old theory and principle and go further to build new one. However, we must be circumspect about the skepticism involved objective things, which will destroy and mislead our correct mind about the society. Lack  of such things, our life would be nonsensical.