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转载 培根的 论求知

已有 5843 次阅读 2011-9-12 22:21 |个人分类:时评|系统分类:观点评述

论求知 是培根的很著名的一片文章。我想基本上大家应该都看过吧,或者至少,也是知道其中的一些名句了。比如读史使人明智,读诗使人聪慧等。
引这篇文章,是对文章的的几句话很感兴趣,所以引用大家有兴趣可以再看一下。
 
 
中文版:

论求知

 弗兰西斯·培根

求知可以作为消遣,可以作为装饰,也可以增长才干。

当你孤独寂寞时,阅读可以消遣。当你高谈阔论时,知识可供装饰。当你处世行事时,正确运用知识意味着力量。懂得事物因果的人是幸福的。有实际经验的人虽能够办理个别性的事务,但若要综观整体,运筹全局,却唯有掌握知识方能办到。

    求知太慢会弛惰,为装潢而求知是自欺欺人,完全照书本条条办事会变成偏执的书呆子。

    求知可以改进人的天性,而实验又可以改进知识本身。人的天性犹如野生的花草,求知学习好比修剪移栽。实习尝试则可检验修正知识本身的真伪。

    狡诈者轻鄙学问,愚鲁者羡慕学问,唯聪明者善于运用学问。知识本身并没有告诉人怎样运用它,运用的方法乃在书本之外。这是一门技艺。不经实验就不能学到。

    不可专为挑剔辩驳去读书,但也不可轻易相信书本。求知的目的不是为了吹嘘炫耀,而应该是为了寻找真理,启迪智慧。

    有的知识只须浅尝,有的知识只要粗知。只有少数专门知识需要深入钻研,仔细揣摩。所以,有的书只要读其中一部分,有的书只须知其中梗概即可,而对于少数好书,则要精读,细读,反复地读。

    有的书可以请人代读,然后看他的笔记摘要就行了。但这只限于质量粗劣的书。否则一本好书将象已被蒸馏过的水,变得淡而无味了!

    读书使人的头脑充实,讨论使人明辩是非,作笔记则能使知识精确。因此,如果一个人不愿做笔记,他的记忆力就必须强而可靠。如果一个人只愿孤独探索,他的头脑就必须格外锐利。如果有人不读书又想冒充博学多知,他就必定很狡黠,才能掩饰他的无知。(主要是这几句话,作者很有意思啊,算是对自己上面及下面诸多肯定的话找一个缓和的出口,使自己的思辨更为完善,同时,这几句话来形容我们当今社会上的大部分人都是很合适的,未必我们就真有那么多的学问,但是。。。。。总的来说,还是看不出来的,一个人不可能真的样样精通的吧,或许有,但是不多。)

   读史使人明智,读诗使人聪慧,演算使人精密,哲理使人深刻,伦理学使人有修养,逻辑修辞使人善辩。总之,“知识能塑造人的性格”。

   不仅如此,精神上的各种缺陷,都可以通过求知来改善----正如身体上的缺陷,可以通过运动为改善一样。例如打球有利于腰肾,射箭可扩胸利肺,散步则有助于消化,骑术使人反应敏捷,等等。同样,一个思维不集中的人,他可以研习数学,因为数学稍不仔细就会出错。缺乏分析判断力的人,他可以研习经院哲学,因为这门学问最讲究繁琐辩证。不善于推理的人,可以研习法律学,如此等等。这种种头脑上的缺陷,可以通过求知来疗治。

 

 下面应该是原版的吧:

 

OF STUDIES

STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and mar-shalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar.

They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

 Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.

 Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. (in english,  .....)

Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a special receipt.

 

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