Issue36 [天道酬勤小组]第一次作业by yaoqian0424

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TOPIC: ISSUE36 - "The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries."
WORDS: 660         TIME: 01:10:00          DATE: 2007-7-3 下午 09:29:30

The speaker asserts that the greatness of individuals can only be evaluated by later generations rather than their contemporaries. As to my point of view, given the certain restrains from objective historical conditions, the contemporaries were unable to provide the correct assessment on great individuals which can only be judged by those who live after them. However, the contemporaries can also be eligible to recognize the greatness due to the constant criteria in some realms.

Admittedly, many great individuals would be appropriately evaluated only by later generations under some specific historical restrains. First of all, in some cases, the fact that the greatness of individuals can not be fully appreciated by their contemporaries is mostly because of their brilliant minds have already surpassed the common cognition of general public and their peers. Hence, the contemporaries were unable to access their works, theories, as well as the creative ideas without completely understanding. Secondly, almost any distinguished ideas were somehow contradictive to the general principles which were held deeply into normal people's minds. So the contemporaries refused to accepte them by nature. There is a good case in point; Copernicus challenged the Roman Church by opposing the comprehensively accepted theory of the earth's central position in the universe and substantiating that the sun is the only center of universe. But his scientific statement was view as heretical idea and he was finally burnt to death. After hundreds years since his death, his theory was confirmed to be truth, from which we can conclude that under the certain restrains of history, especially the confine in common people's cognition, the contemporaries can not reach to correct assessment of greatness of individuals.

Besides, the real value of some accomplishments of great ones has to take a long time even centuries to prove its validity. For that matter, only later generations can afford to undertake the test. John Nash, the prominent economist, constructed the profound Game theory of which the advantages have been gradually cognized by other economists through sufficient data and experience from practice. And he won the Nobel Price 50 years after his publish of the theory. In another case, Einstein's great theory of  special relativity took a long period of time for later generations to fully understand which involved complex calculation and deduction. From these case, we can see that the procedure of tests on great theories, works or ideas are always complicated and can not be accomplished immediately, which means, only the later generations get the chance to lead to the thoroughly understanding.

However, the above mentioned facts can not blind us the capability of contemporaries to judge the greatness of individuals since in some areas the criteria used to evaluate the great achievements have been remained the same through centuries. For instance, in reference of political leaders, their eminent accomplishment is recognized immediately with the instant benefit they brought to the public. Citing the president Roosevelt for example, he implemented some governmental regulations to intervene the economical development which thoroughly altered the destructive impact brought by the Depression and redeveloped the economical progress in US. For his outstanding achievement in US's economy, he was viewed by general public as one of the greatest presidents in the history of US. In the felids of business another case goes that Bill Gates, a successful businessman, was adored as the milestone in software industry for his genius talent in devising construction of software that brought huge amount of money for him and made significant contribution to the society. Both of the two typical examples prove that the contemporaries can make the objective judgment on the contribution the great individuals made to society and the amount of wealth they earned by themselves.

In final analysis, we can see that under some certain circumstance, only the later generations that can correctly and completely recognize the true value of the great individuals ,while with some constant standards in judging the success in some realms, the contemporaries would also be eligible to assess the greatness of individuals.


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[ 本帖最后由 yaoqian0424 于 2007-7-3 23:24 编辑 ]

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The speaker asserts that the greatness of individuals can only be evaluated by later generations rather than their contemporaries. As to my point of view, given the certain restrains from objective historical conditions, the contemporaries were unable to provide the correct assessment on great individuals which can only be judged by those who live after them. However, the contemporaries can also be eligible to recognize the greatness due to the constant criteria in some realms.


Admittedly, many great individuals would be appropriately evaluated only by later generations under some specific historical restrains. First of all, in some cases, the fact that the greatness of individuals can not be fully appreciated by their contemporaries is mostly because of their brilliant minds have already surpassed the common cognition of general public and their peers. Hence, the contemporaries were unable to access their works, theories, as well as the creative ideas without completely understanding. Secondly, almost any distinguished ideas were somehow contradictive to the general principles which were held deeply into normal people's minds. So the contemporaries refused to accept them by nature. There is a good case in point; Copernicus challenged the Roman Church by opposing the comprehensively accepted theory of the earth's central position in the universe and substantiating that the sun is the only center of universe. But his scientific statement was view as heretical idea and he was finally burnt to death. After hundreds years since his death, his theory was confirmed to be truth, from which we can conclude that under the certain restrains of history, especially the confine in common people's cognition, the contemporaries can not reach to correct assessment of greatness of individuals.


Besides, the real value of some accomplishments of great ones has to take a long time even centuries to prove its validity. For that matter, only later generations can afford to undertake the test. John Nash, the prominent economist, constructed the profound Game theory of which the advantages have been gradually cognized by other economists through sufficient data and experience from practice. And he won the Nobel Price 50 years after his publish of the theory. In another case, Einstein's great theory of  special relativity took a long period of time for later generations to fully understand which involved complex calculation and deduction. From these case, we can see that the procedure of tests on great theories, works or ideas are always complicated and can not be accomplished immediately, which means, only the later generations get the chance to lead to the thoroughly understanding.


However, the above mentioned facts can not blind us the capability of contemporaries to judge the greatness of individuals since in some areas the criteria used to evaluate the great achievements have been remained the same through centuries. For instance, in reference of political leaders, their eminent accomplishment is recognized immediately with the instant benefit they brought to the public. Citing the president Roosevelt for example, he implemented some governmental regulations to intervene the economical development which thoroughly altered the destructive impact brought by the Depression and redeveloped the economical progress in US. For his outstanding achievement in US's economy, he was viewed by general public as one of the greatest presidents in the history of US. In the felids of business another case goes that Bill Gates, a successful businessman, was adored as the milestone in software industry for his genius talent in devising construction of software that brought huge amount of money for him and made significant contribution to the society. Both of the two typical examples prove that the contemporaries can make the objective judgment on the contribution the great individuals made to society and the amount of wealth they earned by themselves. 这段不错，使整篇文章显得严密，语句流畅



In final analysis, we can see that under some certain circumstance, only the later generations that can correctly and completely recognize the true value of the great individuals ,while with some constant standards in judging the success in some realms, the contemporaries would also be eligible to assess the greatness of individuals.


Lz的语言很流畅，文章读来很顺，用词也很老练，值得学习^_^
我认为这篇文章最大的问题在于第三段与第二段画线部分的观点重复，你认为呢？

我还看了你的issue185，的确不错，斑斑已经改了，我就不画蛇添足了，你有时间看看我的issue185吧，  https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=697322&extra=page%3D1   谢谢了^_^

yaoqian0424UID: 2323517

谢谢你的修改啊，这两个观点我现在看来确实有点相似，我原来理解是二段讲科学家的智慧过人，他们的理论太复杂深奥而无法被当代人完全理解，加了in some cases 说明是偶然现象，三段说科学家的科研成果需要时间来验证其正确性，是个必然的过程，不是因为理论太深奥而是因为其他人为了得出相同的结果必须经过长时间的资料收集和分析。
差别很细微啊！