ok this is from The American Scholar and i need help with this part i don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views that [famous philosophers] have given, forgetting that [they] were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books.
2007-02-11 18:10:03 · 3 answers · asked by starfleettaskforce 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
ok see here is the tricky part.......most men idol some one in this case we have philosophers admiring and believing in others........yeah it goes back to the Barney days when we must believe in our selves........see the meek of this world is to suggest that they have faults...that they have no right to have an opinion or a set of beliefs that will aid them ....and trying to accept the word of others with no question is nothing....for those philosophers who they now accept as the primary evidence were the same young meek men in those libraries ...that it means nothing to accept those that have come from the same origin, but to accept that we can change and follow our own path ...as Robert Frost reminds us...the fork on the road and the path not traveled......
2007-02-11 18:20:09 · answer #1 · answered by kenika 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The writer of this statement is assuming that all famous philosophers spent their entire lives within the walls of a library when they wrote their books and thus have no experience of the outside world. The writer of this article is therefore stating that
"meek young men" who study the works of these famous philosophers will similarly gain no experience of the outside world...
2007-02-12 02:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by Ricvee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By meek, we are referring here to those young men who choose not to question the words or works that they read on a page, instead thinking that they should meekly accept the words of the writers, the greats, who have thought out great thoughts and shared them with others. Because of their meekness, they do not see or understand that these philosophers were once just like they were, but they dared to dream, to question and to draw their own conclusions. That is what made them great, not merely accepting what someone told them.
Hope this helps.
2007-02-12 02:16:52 · answer #3 · answered by Janet C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋