畢業(yè)論文：Arrogant Rationality—Film Review of the Man from Earth

畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)（論文）
Arrogant Rationality----Film Review of the Man from Earth
Contents

1 Introduction 1
2 Detailed Analysis of the Ideal Conveyed by the Film. 1
2.1 How the Film Subverts Present Human knowledge 1
2.2 The Conception of Arrogant Rationality 3
3 The In-depth Inquiry of the Conception “Arrogant Rationality” 4
3.1 The Connotation of Arrogant Rationality. 4
3.2 the development of Human Rationality along with Times. 4
3.2.1 the Evolution of Human Rationality in The Past 4
3.2.2 the Current Situation of Rationality in Modern Society 5
4 How Is arrogant Rationality Embodied In Modern Society（建議改為：Arrogant Rationality Embodied in Modern Society）. 6
4.1 Rationality on Ideological Level 6
4.2 Science on Material Level 8
4.2.1 Human’s Blind Worship towards Science 8
4.2.2 Human’s Unscrupulous Damage towards Nature 9
4.2.3 Human’s Audacious Intervention towards Nature 9
5 Summary 11
Reference 12

Arrogant Rationality----Film Review of the Man from Earth
Abstract： After thousands of years of diligent research, humankind seems to have got a more clear understanding towards thi
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們向來(lái)所知的知識(shí)截然不同的各種可能性時(shí)，所露出的驚慌、恐懼與斷然否認(rèn)，暴露出了當(dāng)今時(shí)代所謂理性的一個(gè)重大缺陷。當(dāng)理性讓我們變得狂妄、以至于失去寬容與理解這一理性的基本要求時(shí)，也許比愚昧更可怕。
人類自誕生在地球上以來(lái)，在數(shù)萬(wàn)年的進(jìn)化中，逐漸以萬(wàn)物靈長(zhǎng)的姿態(tài)在地球上獲得了統(tǒng)治權(quán)，自然界對(duì)于人類也從頂禮膜拜的神，變成了研究與解析的對(duì)象。與日俱增的知識(shí)與之帶來(lái)的力量讓人類以自我意識(shí)為基點(diǎn)，力圖將外在的自然納入一個(gè)確定化的軌道，這就是所謂的理性。如果說(shuō)在認(rèn)識(shí)世界的過(guò)程中，理想的狂妄最多還只會(huì)導(dǎo)致認(rèn)識(shí)的偏差，那么在改造自然的過(guò)程中，這種狂妄 將會(huì)開(kāi)啟致命的潘多拉魔盒，使人類行為脫軌，最終可能自掘墳?zāi)埂?
關(guān)鍵詞：理性;科學(xué)；歷史；人類；自然；可能性。


1 Introduction
A group of university professors go to their colleague John Oldman’s to throw a departure party for him since the history professor has just resigned surprisingly to move to another place, and they want an interpretation for his une*pected decision. However, what’s more une*pected, after their closely question, the history professor John Oldman announces that he has been an ancient Cromagnon who wouldn’t get old, and has lived on the earth for over 14 thousand years. And he chooses to leave so suddenly simply because his never-aged face would recruit him doubt if he stayed somewhere over ten years. He also “recalls” a lot of memories during his long life to prove his words, most of which are dramatically different from our known facts. Suspiciously and angrily, the professors scramble to e*pose his absurd e*cuse, however, they soon realize that John’s words are as hard to be denied as to be proved. The atmosphere, which was friendly at first, becomes serious and mysterious as John’s words are overturning more and more facts obtained through hundreds of thousands of e*ploration by human beings.

2 Detailed Analysis of the Ideal Conveyed by the Film.
2.1 How the Film Subverts Present Human knowledge


The film first challenges present biological knowledge——a man lived for one hundred and forty centuries, which is unlikely to take place in biological theory. In accordance with the point of view of the biological professor Harry, a man can only live as long as 170 years even with the most healthy body and perfectly-functioned metabolism. What is more, birth and death is regular natural process. That John keeps an appearance and health of 35-year-old is neither in line with natural rule nor with biological common sense. He does not get sick, even in the ancient time when living environment is terribly horrible. Even if he gets sick, he recovers soon. And the most puzzling thing is that he does not scar when gets hurt. All these cannot be e*plained by e*isting biological science.
The discussion on the possibility of forever life is not yet the most astounding, the most appalling and overturning idea lies in the religion field. In the film, John has totally denied God, rewritten the Christian history and wiped out the rings of the holy Christians including Jesus. Firstly, it was not God who has created the world, instead, the world has come into being out of the inter-reaction of many ever-growing magnetic fields. Then, the Christian Saints were not that holy as has been recorded in the Bible. What may hurt the Christian most may be that Jesus was neither the son of God, nor was he was born to save the world and reborn after suffering a lot for saving people. Jesus is John, and as John has put it, he had never saved the dead, and he only used the medical skills he has learned from India. Also, he has never intended to created Christian, he just transmits some conception that he learned in India Buddhism in the west, such as benevolent, forgiveness, mutual help and love. So all the religion roots from the same conception, the fight and argue nowadays seems so ironic. “The message is never practiced. Fairy tales build churches.” This is the essence of the religion.
After throwing the huge bomb in religion field, the film also challenges psychological knowledge, which brings about the most intense conflict in the movie. This setting is evidently of important implications: Psychology, ……（未完，全文共27282字，當(dāng)前僅顯示4907字，請(qǐng)閱讀下面提示信息。收藏《畢業(yè)論文：Arrogant Rationality—Film Review of the Man from Earth》）