《现代大学英语精读3第二版Unit4_Book3》.pptVIP

Gilbert Highet;;;Warming up;Define the following words and phrases: a mischievous pebble (para. 1) elaborate (para. 4) by design (para. 6) restrained (para. 12) chivalrous (para. 12) ;Paraphrase: Live without conventions, which are artificial and false; escape complexities and extravagances: only so can you live a free life. (para. 4) His life’s aim was clear to him: it was “to restamp the currency”: to take the clean metal of human life, to erase the old false conventional markings, and to imprint it with its true values. (para. 5) ;Objectives;;;;;;;;Diogenes: the beggar (paras. 1-3) ;Diogenes: the beggar (paras. 1-3) There are contrasts within the broad contrast. How did Diogenes contrast with ordinary homeless people? ;Diogenes: the philosopher (para. 4) “A Socrates gone mad”: repositioning of convention below nature and reason 2. Three key principles: living in accord with nature total disregard of convention independence (freedom) being the only true, lasting good ;Diogenes: the missionary (para. 5) 1. Comparison with ordinary hermits Similarities: Both grew tired of human society with its complications and wanted to live simply. Differences: ;Diogenes: the missionary (para. 5) 2. What was his mission? “to restamp the currency” call people back to the natural way of life—true life ;Diogenes: ways of teaching (para. 6) How did Diogenes differ from other philosophers of his time? Plato: taught his private pupils in his Academy, which he founded as one of the earliest centers of advanced learning in the world. Aristotle: taught his own private pupils by the use of laboratory, instruments, and specimens. Diogenes: taught all those who would care to listen by his own example or by taking people around him for examples. ;Diogenes: ways of teaching (para. 6) He carried a lighted lamp in broad daylight and inspected the face of everyone he met. ; Alexander: citizen of the world (paras.