unit12confessionsofamiseducatedman教学目的：通过学习本课

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nged, and so we were trapped. And so I say there was a sense that the curtain had e down on one stage in human history and a new curtain was going up, the script for which had not been written. And you became an even more intense an advocate of world government and world federalism as a way out. Since I am opposed to anarchy, and since the principle danger in the world was anarchy on a world level, I couldn39。 t take leave of my convictions about the dangers of anarchy just because nations created this situation. Quotes by Norman Cousins Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resourcesspiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. History is a vast early warning system. Life is an adventure in fiveness. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history es to life. If something es to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Summary of his life 4 In June 1983 Cousins told the graduating class of Harvard Medical School that the conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must bee our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. These certainly were the concerns that obsessed him throughout his life, and over the years he battled through his writings and actions to make them matters of more general concern. Driven by the shock and portent of Hiroshima, he worked to bat unchecked nationalism, promote federalism, and build a sense of world citizenship, in the belief that people as a whole might yet construct a new world order of peace and justice. His optimism, intellectual curiosity, and mitment to the preservation of human life were equally unquenchable. Warmingup questions Today everybody agrees that the world is getting smaller and smaller. International munity, world village, global integration globalization, world market, etc. have bee some of the most frequently used words in the English language. What kind of impact will all this have on us? What must we do to adapt ourselves to these changed conditions? Ask the students to give their opinions. Theme of the Text: The author’s central idea is that , to prepares ourselves for this new world, we must all be reeducated so that we will be able to understand that there are more similarities than differences among peoples. The differences are superficial and insignificant whereas the similarities are essential and fundamental. These similarities enable a。