首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
There is an old saying that philosophy bakes no bread. It is perhaps equally true that no bread would ever have been baked witho
There is an old saying that philosophy bakes no bread. It is perhaps equally true that no bread would ever have been baked witho
admin
2015-02-09
33
问题
There is an old saying that philosophy bakes no bread. It is perhaps equally true that no bread would ever have been baked without philosophy. For the act of baking implies a decision on the philosophical issue of whether life is worthwhile at all. Bakers may not have often asked themselves the question in so many words;【F1】
But philosophy traditionally has been nothing less than the attempt to ask and answer, in a formal and disciplined way, the great questions of life that ordinary men might put to themselves in reflective moments.
In a world of war and change, of principles armed with bombs and technology searching for principles, the alarming thing is not what philosophers say but what they fail to say.【F2】
When reason is overturned, blind passions are unrestrained, and urgent questions mount, men turn for guidance to scientists, sociologists, politicians, journalists—almost anyone except their traditional guide, the philosopher.
Ironically, the once remote theologians are in closer touch with humanity’s immediate and intense concerns than most philosophers. Many feel that the "queen of sciences" has been dethroned.
Once all sciences were part of philosophy’s domain, but gradually, from physics to psychology, they seceded and established themselves as independent disciplines. Above all, for some time now, philosophy itself has been engaged in a vast revolt against its own past and against its traditional function.【F3】
This intellectual clearance may well have been necessary, but as a result contemporary philosophy looks inward at its own problems rather than outward at men, and philosophizes about philosophy, not about life.
A great many of his colleagues in the U.S. today would agree with Donald Kalish, chairman of the philosophy department at U.C.L.A., who says: "There is no system of philosophy to spin out. There are no ethical truths, there are just clarifications of particular ethical problems. You are mistaken to think that anyone ever had the answers. There are no answers."【F4】
As a result, philosophy today is bitterly separated, and most of the major philosophy departments and scholarly journals are the exclusive property of one sect or another.
【F5】
Chances are, however, that philosophy will learn to coexist with science and reach its delayed maturity, provided it resolutely insists on being a separate discipline dealing publicly and intelligibly in first-order questions.
Caution is bound to remain. Instead of one-man systems, philosophy in the future will probably consist of a dialogue of many thinkers, each seeking to explore to the fullest one aspect of a common problem.
【F2】
选项
答案
当理性被颠覆,盲目的狂热失去约束,急需解决的问题攀升时,人们便向科学家、社会学家、政治家、媒体寻求帮助——几乎所有人都可以成为求助对象,除了传统的指导者——哲学家。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/7ZK4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
EarthquakeinHaitiandTelecommunicationNetworkRebuildTheearthquakethatdevastatedHaitialsodestroyedthenation’sf
TheFeverofPhilosophyDiscussionThere’sabuzzintheairattheElDiabloCoffeeCo,inSeattle,andit’s,notjustcomi
Theauthor’spurposeinwritingthispassageis______.Itseemsthatthewriterismostconcernedabout______.
Whenwomendobecomemanagers,dotheybringadifferentstyleanddifferentskillstothejob?Aretheybetter,orworse,manag
Digitalphotographyisstillnewenoughthatmostofushaveyettoformanopinionaboutit,(1)_____developapointofview.
Digitalphotographyisstillnewenoughthatmostofushaveyettoformanopinionaboutit,(1)_____developapointofview.
Digitalphotographyisstillnewenoughthatmostofushaveyettoformanopinionaboutit,(1)_____developapointofview.
随机试题
如何理解社会主义核心价值体系?
H-O变异属于
合理用药安全性的实质内容是
A.降低血氨B.抑制肠内细菌过度生长C.纠正电解质紊乱D.纠正酸碱平衡失调E.纠正氨基酸代谢失调肝性脑病患者静脉滴注支链氨基酸
A、量反应B、停药反应C、副作用D、变态反应E、质反应过敏反应
施工总成本目标确定之后,需通过编制详细的实施性施工成本计划,施工成本计划的编制方式有()。
根据《合伙企业法》的规定,合伙企业发生下列情形之一,应当解散的有()。
“据理力争”不是最佳的表达方式,太用力、太急切地想说明道理,反而少了从容淡定。它反映出“力争”者的不够自信,也表明他对听众辨别事理能力的低估。以下与作者表述的观点最接近的是:
仲裁庭对哪个类型的案件不可以根据当事人的申请裁决先予执行?()
______drewthedailylifeofupperclasses?______depictsscenesofproductionactivitiesandanimalgrazing?
最新回复
(
0
)