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
It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Jap
It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Jap
admin
2010-07-19
54
问题
It is interesting to reflect for a moment upon the differences in the areas of moral feeling and standards in the peoples of Japan and the United States. Americans divide these areas somewhat rigidly into spirit and flesh, the two beings in opposition in the life of a human being. Ideally spirit should prevail but all too often it is the flesh that does prevail. The Japanese make no such division, at least between one as good and the other as evil. They believe that a person has two souls, each necessary. One is the "gentle" soul; the other is the "rough" soul. Sometimes the person uses his gentle soul; sometimes he must use his rough soul. He does not favor his gentle soul; neither does he fight his rough soul. Human nature in itself is good, Japanese philosophers insist, and a human being does not need to fight any part of himself. He has only to learn how to use each soul properly at appropriate times. Virtue for the Japanese consists in fulfilling one’s obligations to others. Happy endings, either in life or in fiction, are neither necessary nor expected, since the fulfillment of duty provides the satisfying end, whatever the tragedy it inflicts. And duty includes a person’s obligations to those who have conferred benefits upon him and to himself as an individual of honor. He develops through this double sense of duty a self-discipline, which is at once permissive and rigid, depending upon the area in which it is functioning.
The process of acquiring this self-discipline begins in childhood. Indeed, one may say it begins at birth—how early is the Japanese child given his own identity! If I were to define in a word the attitude of the Japanese toward their children I would put it in one succinct word "respect." Love? Yes, abundance of love, warmly expressed from the moment he is put to his mother’s breast. For mother and child this nursing of her child is important psychologically.
Rewards are frequent, a bit of candy bestowed at the right moment or an inexpensive toy. As the time comes to enter school, however, discipline becomes firmer. To bring shame to the family is the greatest shame for the child.
What is the secret of the Japanese teaching of self-discipline? It lies, I think, in the fact that the aim of all teaching is the establishment of habit. Rules are repeated over and over, and continually practiced until obedience becomes instinctive. This repetition is enhanced by the expectation of the elders. They expect a child to obey and to learn through obedience. The demand is gentle at first and tempered to the child’s tender age. It is no less gentle as time goes on, but certainly it is increasingly inexorable.
Now, far away from that warm Japanese home, I reflect upon what I learned there. What, I wonder, will take the place of the web of love and discipline which for so many centuries has surrounded the life and thinking of the people of Japan? (511 words)
In the teaching of self-discipline the Japanese emphasize ______.
选项
A、establishment of habits by repeating the rules
B、early tolerant training combined with restrictive movement
C、heavy external control including both verbal and physical punishment
D、a permissive atmosphere almost until puberty
答案
A
解析
意为“通过重复规矩而建立起习惯。”见倒数第二段的前三句:“日本自律教育的秘密是什么?我想在于其所有的教育目标是为了培养习惯。规矩被一次次地重复,并不断地实行直到顺从成为本能。”所以正确答案应该是A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/lMlO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Bysomeestimates,thereareasmanyas12millionillegalimmigrantsintheUnitedStates,toilinginfarmfields,restaurantk
______isthelargestcityandthechiefportoftheUnitedStates.
Wonderfulfacttoreflectupon,thateveryhumancreatureisconstitutedtobethatprofoundsecretandmysterytoeveryother.
Themallisastoundingbecause______.Afterafalsestart,countlesschangesofplanandgreatlocalopposition,______.
Rewardsandpunishmentsareusedindifferentwaysbydifferentcommunitiestomaintainsocialorderandpreserveculturalvalue
MarkRothkoemigratedtotheUnitedStates______.Whonamedpaintingsbytheircolours?
Insixteenth-centuryItalyandeighteenth-centuryFrance,waningprosperityandincreasingsocialunrestledtherulingfamilies
A、requirealotofstrengthB、aremoreinterestingC、canreduceone’sweightD、bringone’sheartbeattoatleast120aminuteD
Beforeconsideringthisquestionitisinterestingtoreviewbrieflytheevolutionofthemindas【M
随机试题
Doctor’sorders:LetchildrenjustplayA)Imagineadrugthatcouldenhanceachild’screativityandcriticalthinking.Ima
男性,29岁,贫血1年,皮肤散在出血点,肝脾未及,血红蛋白65g/L,红细胞2.0×l012/L,白细胞2×109/L血小板27×109/L骨髓增生活跃,粒系和红系多为晚期阶段,巨核细胞如,酸溶血试验阴性
2004年12月起实施的《中华人民共和国传染病防治法》将传染病分为
女性急性肾衰病人,50岁,前一天尿量为300ml,呕吐150ml,补液量估计为
下列选项中属于系统效率的是()。
招标项目的合同文本应包括________。
带领学生深入工厂或农村进行实地参观访问的直观教学形式为()。
下面关于特别行政区的政治体制的特点论述,错误的是()。
(2014年第13题)中国特色社会主义法治理念包含“依法治国、执法为民、公平正义、服务大局、党的领导”五个方面的基本内涵,它们是相辅相成、不可分割的有机整体,构成了社会主义法治理念的完整理论体系。其中,公平正义是
Whatdidthemanwant?
最新回复
(
0
)