城邦里的哲学家（A philosopher in a polis）.doc

城邦里的哲学家（A philosopher in a polis） After the decline of the city-state of Athens, democracy disappeared in human history for more than 2000 years, and it did not begin to flourish until the last one hundred or two hundred years. The ancient Greeks had a deep-seated idea that the beginning was everything. Even in the heyday of Athenss democratic life, we all saw its best and worst, possibly impossible. Heraclitus said, the way up is the same way as the way down.. On this same path, are the modern people ready to choose to ascend, or continue to go down in the direction of 399 BC? The Zhou Lian The Death of Socrates Station in Athens before the propylaia, the best scenery in the west to: under almost transparent blue sky is blue sky and sea Aegean Sea, the intersection is 8 kilometers from the port of Piraeus. And this quiet different picture of the school, is at the foot of the mountain of the craggy rocks -- or more precisely, a height of about 113 meters of the rocky hill. Utopia, Socrates is attending the sacrifice sacred to the goddess in the port of Piraeus, hurried to the city, then he must not expect in the shallow mountain ares accept citizens assembly trial, and at the center of the small cave in the mountain for a long time before death. At first glance, Socratess life was a shock, and approaching the legendary cave holding Socrates was another shock. In fact, before I went to Greece, had been prepared for the great Socrates before the death of the living circumstances, after all, in the French neoclassical painter Jacques Davids death of Socrates, to the photo imaging style described to us at the last moment, the scene of socrates. But it was still a surprise to see that the cave in the history of philosophy was so cramped. I suddenly realized that this can not be straight body painter cell painted bright and spacious, perhaps in the expression of his belief that even in the last moments of life, Socrates cell should also be rational and full of glory. In P