世界观和价值观概要1.ppt

模板来自于 * Values Worldviews Worldviews For Western people,Personality further complicated by our diverse racial and cultural origins.They are at the same time sensitive to the rights of the individual and habitual conformist.They worship bigness yet idealize the little man, whether he be the small business man as opposed to the big one or the plain citizen as opposed to the big wheel. Western In the Chinese tradition,the notion of an individual with a self makes a different kind of sense.for all major thinkers,a human individual alone cannot really be undersood as fully human. In the Chinese tradition,the notion of an individual with a self makes a different kind of sense for all major thinkers,a human individual alone cannot really be undersood as fully human. Chinese Western One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of Gods love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settled. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement. Success as a Goal Western The men and women who staked everything on America were for the most part poor. They struggled hard, went without, and saved in order to build up a business or buy a farm of their own. The freedom to own rather than the freedom to vote was the magnet that drew the majority of them across oceans. Naturally enough they put a high value upon the land or the business they acquired through their own efforts. Materialism De Chinese (virture) De has been used for centuries to point to the sum-total of the values inculcated in the Chinese tradition.Hence it applies in all spheres of life as a word for what humans should aspire to live up to in their acti