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课程名称:《西方文化史》 开课单位：福州大学外国语学院 开课教师： 潘红,余梅娴 Course Introduction(课程说明) Topic 1 What is Culture and Why do We have to learn the history of it? 什么是文化？为什么学习文化史？ Mesopotamia Civilization美索不达米亚文明→20th century European culture Western experience---powerfully shapes the world (government, institutions, ideas, law, values) President Barack Obama’s bow to Emperor Akihito upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo November 14, 2009 sparks criticism from right Different perceptions of beauty ways of seeing(do you see a vase or two human faces?) Confucian tradition儒教传统 《三字经》（Three-Character Classic ） 人之初?性本善?性相近?习相远? People?at birth are naturally good.Their natures are similar; their habits become different. 苟不教?性乃迁 教之道?贵以专 If,?negligently, not taught, their nature deteriorates. The right way?to teach, is?with absolute concentration. Western tradition Michelangelo米开朗基罗(1475-1564): The Fall of Man 人类的堕落and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden(驱出伊甸园) Michelangelo Aristotle (384 BC –322 BC) Greek philosopher and scientist “Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. ” when man is without virtue, man is the most unscrupulous and savage of animals ---the control of dark nature can be found only in a well-ordered society Ways of seeing the world---world views How we give meaning to the ideas and phenomena we are faced with? The perspective from which we see things, events, ideas in this world. World view is also something that guides our actions. What shapes our world views? Will Durant on history： “It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generatio