希腊神话的人文精神

希腊神话是美妙的,它的美是纯粹的、乐观的,没有一点儿人生的凄苦、时世的险恶或惩恶扬善、拯救人类的说教,显示出浪漫的古希腊人“审美重于道德”的价值取向;希腊神话是原欲人性的礼赞,它歌颂性爱、赞美肉体,体现了古希腊人“人性、人权高于一切”的哲学观念和“真即美”的审美标准;希腊神话是乐观主义的源泉,体现出他们为人处世的快乐原则,也表明着古希腊“没有罪恶感”的社会初始阶段特征;希腊神话是力量的颂歌,体现出一种强烈的抗争意识、尚武精神和个人荣誉感,从而演化出西方后世强烈的个体意识……神话的形式会消亡,但它的精神会转化为文化形态而得以存在,得以流传。

On the Humane Spirit of the Greek Mythology

The Greek mythology is wonderful,pure,and optimistic.It has no rubs and worries of life,and has no sermon on virture praise and vice punishment.So it demonstrates the romantic ancient Greece person's value orientation,which is aesthetic is more important than moral;the Greek mythology praises and adires the man's original desire nature,for example the glorification of the eroticism and the human body,so it manifests the ancient Greece person's philosophy idea that the human nature and the humn rights ae the most important,and manifests the esthetic standard that really is beautiful;the Greek mythology is the optimism headspring,manifests the pleasure principle of getting along with people,nd indicates the ancient Greece spcoa;preliminary stage characteristic of having no guilty feeling;the Greek mythology is the strength ode,manifests one kind of strong resistance consciousness,martial spirit and individual sense of honor,thus evolves the Western aftertime individual consciousness …… The myth form can wither away,but its spiritual and cultural patterns will be transformed into existence.