Wednesday, June 9, 2010

How one becomes what one is.

Antipathy toward social group or community which submit a lonely spirits to belong to,has been an important but negative motivation to critical thinking. Nietzsche disliked German people although he was a German.He wrote a lot of sarcasms toward Germans in his works.
  China thinker Confucius was an ancient Chinese and a traveler through his life as a thinker. Whom his negative critics were against, were Chinese people or governors at that time.
This make it difficult and troublesome to read classics. Lonely alienated reader might feel a sympathy with such a writer and touching classics will give readers consolations."Nobody admire me,but there is my friend in classics." Such the way of reading is fruitless indeed.
 The value of reading classics is to learn style of writing or speaking. I wasn't ashamed of being a copy-cat.Originality,It's only a myth.Copyright should be more loose in the IT era. To copy a good phrase is better than to console oneself.I believe" To copy a style is more difficult than to copy meanings."(Norinaga Motoori 本居宣長 Scholar 1730-1801)

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