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2016-07-15 BBC:古代圣贤:苏格拉底 Socrates-7
Democracy had opened a Pandora’s Box for new d_______ and c_____________. As he reached adulthood, Socrates has become the one to point them out, a constant irritant known as the gadfly of Athens and infamous celebrity of his day. “But Socrates is also an enigma because as far as we know, he didn’t write anything down, not a single line. He thought that the writing was dangerous, but it imprisoned knowledge.” It’s only thanks to contemporaries such as Plato, who may have coined the term philosopher, perhaps with Socrates in mind, that his thoughts and life story have been preserved. “And what a man he seemed to be Ironic, gracious, brilliant, wildly charismatic and utterly i_________. Plato’s compelling accounts of his life, his ideas and his dramatic death are a jewel in the canon of western thoughts.” “When we think of the ancient Greek philosophers, we often visualize them as they’ve been portrayed in Renaissance works of arts: lofty grey beards, draped in elegant robes, hanging around classical columns. We don’t perhaps imagine them involved in the dirty and bloody business of war.” |