Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second...Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second inner passion.More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements.Struggling between the two,a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division,attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again.Chopin and Melville are without exception.Their characters-Edna and IshmaelAhab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities.Through frustrations and determinations,those characters demonstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness,think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.展开更多
In a moral sense,there is an essential di erence between“disciplining oneself”and“disciplining others”in that the former means one setting rules for and giving orders to oneself in regard to one’s own conduct,whi...In a moral sense,there is an essential di erence between“disciplining oneself”and“disciplining others”in that the former means one setting rules for and giving orders to oneself in regard to one’s own conduct,which are unconditionally compulsory,while the latter is exible in the sense that one’s rules and orders for oneself are not compulsory to others and cannot prohibit others from doing something.In principle,Confucius’s sayings,“do not impose upon others that which you would not wish for yourself”and“establish others in seeking to establish yourself and promote others in s eeking to promote yourself”have epitomized the line of demarcation between them.His doctrine of“not imposing upon others that which you would not wish for yourself,”though based on self-preservation and self-interest,represents a standard of conduct of highly universal value.If the overwhelming majority of a society follows it as their standard of conduct,refraining from harming others in order to protect oneself from harm,then the whole society will endure little,if not no,strife and struggle.展开更多
文摘Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second inner passion.More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements.Struggling between the two,a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division,attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again.Chopin and Melville are without exception.Their characters-Edna and IshmaelAhab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities.Through frustrations and determinations,those characters demonstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness,think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.
文摘In a moral sense,there is an essential di erence between“disciplining oneself”and“disciplining others”in that the former means one setting rules for and giving orders to oneself in regard to one’s own conduct,which are unconditionally compulsory,while the latter is exible in the sense that one’s rules and orders for oneself are not compulsory to others and cannot prohibit others from doing something.In principle,Confucius’s sayings,“do not impose upon others that which you would not wish for yourself”and“establish others in seeking to establish yourself and promote others in s eeking to promote yourself”have epitomized the line of demarcation between them.His doctrine of“not imposing upon others that which you would not wish for yourself,”though based on self-preservation and self-interest,represents a standard of conduct of highly universal value.If the overwhelming majority of a society follows it as their standard of conduct,refraining from harming others in order to protect oneself from harm,then the whole society will endure little,if not no,strife and struggle.
