English英语译成Chinese汉语 社会科学 历史 Intellectual History

This last example can give us a clue to the way the classic Greeks felt about an eternal human problem -- that of the relation of the individual to the society of which he is a part. The show-off is thinking always about himself and how he can hold the limelight. This excessive preoccupation with one's self the classic Greeks disapproved of. Indeed, they cast such discredit on the individual who tried to go his own way regardless of his fellow members of the city-state that their root word for private has come to be our word idiot.

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