3.艺术也一样：大众艺术，比如电影啊，节目收视率;畅销书;
非主流艺术，比如凡高，比如史记
*当代人认同
一、同意，因为 Though people set great ostensible...，但claim 太绝对, 含有 only，better revised ，business，sports
二、limited to traditions and conflicting with conventional wisdom ，被贬成 heterodoxy
1. Copernicus, Darwin
2.与主流 ideology 冲突
三、需要被证明 History also informs us that most of new ideas beyond the ken of general people should be tested by their abilities, in combination with events, to overcome iner tia and resistance that conventional wisdom provides.
1.既得利益很难克服 It is because the vested interest in understanding is more preciously guarded than any other treasure that people defend with great passion their traditional ideas which they have so laboriously learned.
2. Mendel
四、What appears to be true in scientific world is even truer in the fiel ds of philosophy, sociology, and economics, where there is no absolutely correct solution to a problem.
1. 经济学例子 Joan Robinson, Keynes
五、但有些也可以被人同,business sports，相对短时间 the claim is not unexceptionable when it comes to the business world and sports sphere wh ere it is easier to see the values.
1. Jack Welch
2.Sports, 人们可以 distinguish whether good player Schumacher
36T "The greatness of individual s can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries."
* 只有后来人评价以前的人，而不应该同时代的人相互评价
① The greatness of individuals cannot be appreciated by their contemporaries in large part is due to their outstanding talent and their transcendental intelligence which surpass the common cognition of general public and their peers. 如：梵高Gogh, Vincent van, the sunflower, starry night. 死后才被追认为印象派(impressionism)大师master
Dutch postimpressionist painter whose early works, such as Th e Potato Eaters (1885), portray peasant life in somber, dark colors. His later work s, including numerous self-portraits, a series of sunflower paintings (1888), and Starry Night (1889), are characterized by bold, rhythmic brush strokes and vivid colors. Hi s long struggle with depression ended in suicide.
② 与①相反，有一部分工程 project 在当时看起来很好，随时间推移显出坏处。如：政治家的政绩 achievement in one's post 工程。不考虑后代的利益，留下棘手的问题跟下一任。Under such circumstance, greatness must be tested over time before it can be confirmed.
③ 当代人还可能受当时的社会意识形态 ideology、舆论传播的影响。Only time will tell
④ 后代人来评说也有问题。可能不能考虑到当时的历史环境以及其他历史条件的限制。不能be personally on the scene
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