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
外语
No one can be a great thinker who docs not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever co
No one can be a great thinker who docs not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever co
admin
2014-05-14
19
问题
No one can be a great thinker who docs not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. Note that it is solely, of chiefly, to form great thinkers that freedom of thinking is required. On the contrary, it is as much or even more indispensable to enable average human beings to attain the mental stature which they are capable of. There have been and many again be great individual thinkers in a general atmosphere of mental slavery. But there never has been, nor ever will be, in that atmosphere an intellectually active people. Where any of heterodox speculation was for a time suspended, where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed: where the discussion of the greatest questions which can occupy humanity is considered to be closed, we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable. Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up fro9m its foundation and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.
She who knows only her own side of the case knows little of that. Her reasons may be food, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if she s equally unable to refute the reasons of the opposite side; if she does not so much as know what they are, she has no ground for preferring either opinion. The rational position for her would be suspension of judgment, and unless she contents herself with that, she is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world the side to which she feels the most inclination. Nor is it enough that she should heat the arguments of adversaries from her own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied hy what they offer as refutations, That is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or bring them into real contact with her own mind. She must be able to hear them form persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. She must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; she must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and d! spose of; else she will never really possess herself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty, Ninety-nine in a hundred of what are called educated persons are in this condition; even of those who can argue fluently for their opinions. Their conclusion may be true, but it might be false for anything they know; they have never thrown themselves into the mental position of those who think differently form them and considered what such persons may have to say; and consequently they do not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrines which they themselves profess.
According to the author, the person who holds orthodox beliefs without examination may be described in all of the following ways EXCEPT as _____.
选项
A、enslaved by tradition
B、less than fully rational
C、determined on controversy
D、having a closed mind
答案
C
解析
推理题。一般说来,持有未经检验的正统信仰的人不会独立思考,更不会怀疑他所信仰的东西。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DzTK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Thedifferencebetween"writer"and"reporter"or"journalist"isn’tthatthejournalistreports—she(1)_____sources,callspeo
WhatdowemeanbyaperfectEnglishpronunciation?Inone(1)_____thereareasmanydifferentkindsofEnglishastherearespe
Lawyersarelessthan1%ofAmericanadults,(1)_____theyarewell-representedingovernment.Boththepresidentandthevice-p
In1959,Hawaiibecamethefiftiethstateintheunion(1)_____CongresssofarawayinWashingtonD.C,howdoHawaiiansgetthe
AlthoughtherearemanyskillfulBraillereaders,thousandsofotherblindpeoplefinditdifficulttolearnthatsystem.Theya
Seariseasaresultofglobalwarmingwouldimmediatelythreatenthatlargefractionoftheglobelivingatsealevel.Nearlyo
InAmerica,olderpeoplerarelylivewiththeiradultchildren.Butinmanyothercultureschildrenareexpectedtocare【C1】___
Peterpreferstobehisownbossand______hisownbusiness.
Theunrighteousofficerpreferstoresign______partinsuchdishonestbusinessdeals.
Peopleweresurprisedtofindthathehadtheabilityto______everythinghewasinvolvedin.
随机试题
瓣简述领导者树立改革创新观念的必要性。
骨折线从梨状孔下方,牙槽突上方两侧水平方向延伸至上颌翼突缝自鼻额缝向两侧横过鼻梁、眶内壁、眶底颧上颌缝沿上颌骨侧壁达翼突
脓性指头炎处理不及时易引起
对层流净化特点的错误表述是
当企业面临激烈的市场竞争时,被迫的物流服务和物流成本策略常常是()。
大数定理是指在随机试验中,每次出现的结果不同,但是大量重复试验出现的结果的平均值却几乎总是接近于某个确定的值,即该事件发生的概率。根据上述定义,下列事件能够用大数定理解释的是()。
2014年1月份,烟酒及用品价格同比下降0.7%。其中,酒类价格下降2.0%,炯草价格上涨0.2%。衣着价格同比上涨1.9%。其中,衣着加工服务费价格上涨5.3%,服装价格上涨2.0%,鞋类价格上涨1.5%。家庭设备用品及维修服务价格同比上涨1.5%。其中
张:公司若能使雇员照顾好孩子,公司将有利可图,因为这些孩子将会成为公司未来的顾客、雇员甚至经理。因此,公司应当采取诸如发放白天托儿津贴之类的措施来方便父母亲们。李:但是,没有任何一个公司将会仅被他自己成员的孩子所惠顾,仅雇用自己雇员的孩子,仅被自己雇员的孩
(2014年真题)甲路过某饭馆时见万某酩酊大醉,便冒充万某的朋友上前将其扶走,到一偏僻的地方后,将万某随身携带的价值5000元的财物全部取走。甲的行为构成()。
TheMissAmericacelebration【C1】______asabeautycontestin1921,butnowpreferstoavoidsuch【C2】______sincebeautyisnolon
最新回复
(
0
)