《现代大学英语 精读6（第二版）》教学课件Unit 9-(2010版).pptxVIP

济南大学英语系 外语教学与研究出版社 CONTEMPORARY现代大学英语COLLEGE ENGLISH 2 3Contents Warming up Background Structure Text Analysis ExtensionUnit 9 4Warming upWBSETIn the title, what do “the One” and “the Many” stand for? Where does the author stand as a historian in this debate of “the One v. the Many”?What are the traditional explanations for the rapid deve-lopment of the United States?In what way is the American experience unique?Do you agree that the basic conflict of our times is the conflict between “the One” and “the Many”? Why or why not?Questions 单击 视频部分 播放单击此椭圆, 打开链接播放3分钟A Brief history of USA 6Warming upWBSETEmpiricism经验论Rationalism唯理论Determinism决定论Pragmatism实用主义Absolutism专制主义A priori先验A theory in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive. Its doctrine holds that the mean-ing of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.The belief that there is one and only one truth.(?See Notes to the text)A theory that states that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience.It is the philosophical position that for every event, there exist conditions that could cause no other event. A type of knowledge which is obtained independently of experience. Definitions 7Background InformationIsaiah Berlin The Fox and the HedgehogWBSET 8BackgroundIsaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a British philosopher, historian of ideas, political theorist, educator and essayist. For much of his life he was renowned for his conversational brilliance, his defense of liberalism and his attacks on political extremism and intellectual fanaticism. His essay “Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958) contributed to a revival of interest in political theory in the English-speaking world. His “The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History” was published in 1953. 9According to Berlin, hedgehog-like writers and thinkers focus on one all-embracing idea or formula for understanding life. Fox-like thinkers, on the other hand, disdain single systems