To a philosopher, wisdom is not the same as knowledge. Facts may be known in enormous numbers without the knower of them loving wisdom. Indeed, the person who possesses encyclopedic (学士渊博的) information may actually have a genuine contempt (轻视) for those who love and seek wisdom. The philosopher is not content with a mere knowledge of facts. He desires to combine and evaluate facts, and to examine beneath the obvious to the deeper orderliness behind the immediately given facts. Insight into the hidden depths of reality, perspective (洞察) on human life and nature in their entirety, in the words of Plato, to be a spectator of time and existence-these are the philosopher’s objectives. Too great an interest in the small details of science, may, and often does, obscure these basic objectives.
Philosophers assume that the love of wisdom is a natural gift of the human being. Potentially every man is a philosopher because in the depths of his being there is an intense longing
A. The Potential Philosopher
B. The Philosophy of Plato
C. The Philosopher Versus the Scientist
D. The Philosopher Defined
Text 4 Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the e- mergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period. Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured be- cause, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement -- utopian socialism -- which was al- ready popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades th
A. insufficiently aware of the ideological consequences of the Seneca Falls conference.
B. overly concerned with the regional diversity of feminist ideas in the period before 1848.
C. insufficiently concerned with the social conditions out of which feminism developed.
D. insufficiently familiar with the international origins of 19th-century American feminist thought.
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