上海交通大学：《古希腊文明演绎（Greek Classics）》课程教学资源（PPT讲稿）Introduction（for use）

上游充通大￥ SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Ancient Greek Civilization Prof.:Wu Shiyu Email:shiyuw@sjtu.edu.cn 漏 http://sla.sjtu.edu.cn/bbs SHANG 1日gG

Ancient Greek Civilization Prof.: Wu Shiyu Email: shiyuw@sjtu.edu.cn http://sla.sjtu.edu.cn/bbs

上游充通大 Three Questions SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Why are we here? ©Vhat is it about? How are we going to study it?

Three Questions Why are we here? What is it about? How are we going to study it?

上降充通大学 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

上游充通大 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Beyond these exhortations,they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature,to train them in virtue and restrain them from vice

Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue and restrain them from vice

上游文通大 Aristotle's Lecture SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Barbarians (Oriental Nations) Excess (moderation),practice control of our senses Strive for honon Follow reason (the divine part in us) Love excellence (to love the god)

Aristotle’s Lecture Barbarians (Oriental Nations) Excess (moderation), practice control of our senses Strive for honor Follow reason (the divine part in us) Love excellence (to love the god)

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