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issue 177:""The study of an academic discipline alters the way we perceive the world. After studying the discipline, we see the same world as before, but with different eyes."
I totally agree with the argument that the study of different disciplines will change our view of the world,because study is not a process of infusing different knowledge into our mind,but an acquirement of different kinds of ways of thinking and practising, which will totally alter the world in our eyes and our reaction to the world.
Different disciplines have different rules and characteristics.A great British philosopher Bacon had said(and I paraphrase):"Histories make men wise;poems witty;the mathematics subtle;natural philosophy deep;moral grave;logic and rhetoric able to contend." I think it explains the truth deeply and exactly.
History is a mirror,through which we will have the prevision of our own and even our community's destiny, absorb the exprience of success or failure from the similar events,and distinguish virtue and evil.From the rout of Fascismo, we can learn that evil will be defeated by righteousness one of these days;from the example of Rooselvelt, we get that people who can defeat us are ourselves and practicality is a cherish charecter of a leader; from the great discovery of Newton's laws,we can understand a curious eyes to question the ordinary things is the most valuable creative originals;and from the behavior of those great names like shining stars--Gandi,Joan of Arc,Mother Teresa, we really and truly know what is loyalty,bravery and kindness.
Science disciplines have precise logical reasoning and based on data and experiments mostly.Physics and chemistry all abstract rules and methods from ordinary phenomenons,and then utilize these rules and methods to enrich people's life and produce what they need.The study of these disciplines will not only help us understand countless natural phenomenons, but also train our ability of solving different problems. For instance,the various novelty and creative experiments which once illustrate great theories will also give us inspirations to how to break the conventions to realize our aims by an indirect way.In the mean time, the scientific precise attitude and logical thinking will promote our rational and sober thinking which is always the sucessful leaders,businessmen and scientists' charcteristics.Ambition and ardor are the engine
of our life train,but without rational and sober thinking and behavior, which is similar to the
oil, our train can not run at all.It is the learning of scientific sciences, the complex world in our mind become orderly and under control of our hands.
Poems represent feelings-- ardor,slop over,resent,ect.Poems will give us numberless imagination and curiosity of the world,because in an poetic eyes, everyday of life is different,which has different colours.However,in a physics scientist eyes,the world consists of different atoms or molecules,which moves according to the rules of newton's laws or quantum mechanics.Maybe scientific sciences reflect the true banausic world ;on the contrary, arts reflect the true feeling world,just as a great Spanish painter Picasso has said(and I paraphrase),art is a lie that tells the truth.
All in all, as in one thousand eyes have one thousand Hamlet,the world is diverse in different eyes of people who have different discipline backgrounds, which alter the world in our eyes and at the end alter our life styles. (呵呵 见笑了)
[ 本帖最后由 staralways 于 2006-1-28 11:57 编辑 ] |
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