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Social Sciences - History / Intellectual History | | English term or phrase: foolhardiness or rashness | You can easily work out concrete examples of this Greek ethics for yourself. Thus abstention from sexual intercourse, celibacy, would be to Greeks unnatural, excessive, and therefore not virtuous; promiscuity in sex life, obsessive indulgence in or ... would also ... not virtuous. The Golden Mean here, as with the other appetites, involves self-control, balance, decency. Or, as a final illustration, courage is clearly a virtue, and a fine manly one. Cowardice -- insufficiency of courage -- is most obviously a vice. But so too is excess of courage, which we commonly call ***foolhardiness or rashness,*** and which is the attribute, not of the brave man, but of the show-off.
中国话里有与 foolhardiness 和 rashness 相称的两个词吗？
暴虎冯河、匹夫之勇，似乎都不相称。 |
| | | 有勇无谋，轻率鲁莽 | Explanation:
foolhardiness有勇无谋
rashness 轻率鲁莽 |
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译为：有勇无谋、莽撞轻率。
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