上浒文通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY The Evolution of Ancient Greek Civilization 漏 SHANG 1日g6 ERSIT
The Evolution of Ancient Greek Civilization
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Why TOUPP RCOP,7TVaG3老Ku7akd(a7pawo入07Up1 TNTWNEHAHTIG入ON What How
Why What How
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Story Myth Epics History Tragedy Philosophy
Myth Epics History Tragedy Philosophy Story
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Stories Dialogues (Speeches) Reason (moderation) ®Glory
Stories Dialogues (Speeches) Reason (moderation) Glory
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "We are all Greeks.Our laws, our literature,our religion,our arts,have their root in Greece." ------Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 August 1792-8 July 1822
"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.“ ------Percy Bysshe Shelley 4 August 1792- 8 July 1822
上游充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "In all history,nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of civilization in Greece.” ---Bertrand Russell
“In all history, nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of civilization in Greece.” ---Bertrand Russell
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "The Greeks,however,combined a unique sense of mankind's high place in the natural order and the possibilities it provided with a painful understanding of its limitations.This is the tragic vision of the human condition that characterized classical Greek civilization.To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions." ----Donald Kagan
“The Greeks, however, combined a unique sense of mankind’s high place in the natural order and the possibilities it provided with a painful understanding of its limitations. This is the tragic vision of the human condition that characterized classical Greek civilization. To cope with it, they urged human beings to restrain their overarching ambitions.” ----Donald Kagan
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "As man is the best of the animals when perfected. so he is the worst when separated from law and justice.For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends. Therefore,when he is without virtue,man is the most unscrupulous and savage of the animals." ---Aristotle
“As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst when separated from law and justice. For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends. Therefore, when he is without virtue, man is the most unscrupulous and savage of the animals.” ---Aristotle
上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY "They understood the potentiality of human beings,their limitations,and the predicament in which they live.Man is potent and important,yet he is fallible and mortal,capable of the greatest achievements and the worst crimes.He is a tragic figure,powerful but limited,with freedom to choose and act but bound by his own nature,knowing that he will never achieve perfect knowledge and understanding,justice and happiness,but determined to continue the search
“They understood the potentiality of human beings, their limitations, and the predicament in which they live. Man is potent and important, yet he is fallible and mortal, capable of the greatest achievements and the worst crimes. He is a tragic figure, powerful but limited, with freedom to choose and act but bound by his own nature, knowing that he will never achieve perfect knowledge and understanding, justice and happiness, but determined to continue the search
上游充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss to all of humanity
The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss to all of humanity