研究生英语Unit5优质PPT.ppt

1、Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth BirthdayU5Additional lnformation for the Teachers ReferenceText Reflections on His Eightieth BirthdayWarm-up ActivitiesFurther ReadingWriting SkillsAdditional WorkUnit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth BirthdayWarm-up Activities1.Russell writes in one of his works,“T

2、hree passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:#the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”What are the passions that rule your life now?#2.One of Russells famous quotes is,“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by

3、 knowledge.”Try to present your own understanding and explanation of this sentence.Is his “good life”the same as yours?#Warm-up 1.1Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday A stupid mans report of what a clever man says can never be accurate,because he unconsciously translates what he hears into

4、something he can understand.Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion,for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt.I shouldnt wish

5、people dogmatically to believe any philosophy,not even mine.Warm-up 4.13.Study the following Bertrand Russell Quotations:#Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts,he will scrutin

6、ize it closely,and unless the evidence is overwhelming,he will refuse to believe it.If,on the other hand,he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts,he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.If there were in the world today any large number of peop

7、le who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,we could have paradise in a few years.Warm-up 4.2Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth BirthdayWarm-up 4.3 In all affairs its a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for g

8、ranted.In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice,and often the good suffer,and often the wicked prosper,and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.It has been said that man is a rational animal.All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support

9、this.It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly,just as it is to be angry with a car that wont go.Many people would sooner die than think;#in fact,they do so.Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth BirthdayWarm-up 4.4 Mathematics,rightly viewed,possesses not only truth,but supreme

10、beauty a beauty cold and austere,like that of sculpture.Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death.Thought is subversive and revolutionary,destructive and terrible,thought is merciless to privilege,established institutions,and comfortable habit.Thought lo

11、oks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.Thought is great and swift and free,the light of the world,and the chief glory of man.No one gossips about other peoples secret virtues.Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth BirthdayWarm-up 4.5 Passive acceptance of the teachers wisdom is easy to most boys an

12、d girls.It involves no effort of independent thought,and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils;#it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man.Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life.It causes man to s

13、eek and to accept a leader,and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.Science may set limits to knowledge,but should not set limits to imagination.Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday So far as I can remember,there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligen

14、ce.The good life,as I conceive it,is a happy life.I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy I mean that if you are happy you will be good.The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.The main things which seem to me important on their ow

15、n account,and not merely as means to other things,are knowledge,art,instinctive happiness,and relations of friendship or affection.The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.Warm-up 4.6Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday The people

16、 who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,but wiser people so full of doubts.Warm-up 4.7Unit 5 Reflections on His Eightieth Birthday Bertrand Arthur William Russell（1872-1970）,British philosopher,logician,essayist,and social critic,is best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic phi