Transcript Unit 13 Beauty Period one

Unit 13 Beauty
Period one
New Words
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unable to walk properly because your leg or
foot is injured or weak
lame
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to make someone want to do something by
making it seem very attractive or interesting
to them
Seduce
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the quality of being very pleasant or
attractive
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Enchantment
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a member of any of the Christian bodies that
separated from the Church of Rome in the
16th century.
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Protestant:
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regrettable; deplorable; deserving lament or
regret
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Lamentable:
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a strong criticism or condemnation; harsh
rebuke or reprimand
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censure:
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to climb, esp. with difficulty or effort, using
the hands and feet.
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clamber:
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to make ( a book, etc.) shorter, by using
fewer words; condense; reduce ( time,
extent, scope, etc); restrain, limit
Abridge:
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study or science of myths; body or
collection of ancient stories.
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Mythology:
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irritable or complaining, esp. because one is
unhappy or worried.
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fretful:
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to make oneself look tidy by combing one’s
hair, etc,
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Preen
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to agree to give up ownership or possession
of sth.; five up a habit voluntarily; abandon
reject or stop following sb. or sth.
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renounce: (fml.)
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sb. that does not follow one of the world's
main religions, but follow a less important
religion that usu. considered questionable.
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Pagan:
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to estrange sb
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alienate
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careful
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Wary
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seemingly absurd or contradictory, even if
actually well-founded
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Paradoxical
About Socrates
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The philosopher Socrates remains, as he
was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.),an
mystery, an inscrutable individual who,
despite having written nothing, is considered
one of the handful of philosophers who
forever changed how philosophy itself was
to be conceived
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. All our information about him is secondhand and most of it vigorously disputed, but
his trial and death at the hands of the
Athenian democracy is nevertheless the
founding myth of the academic discipline of
philosophy, and his influence has been felt
far beyond philosophy itself, and in every
age.
About beauty
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Standards of beauty are different in different
eras, and in Socrates' time beauty could
easily be measured by the standard of the
gods, stately, proportionate sculptures of
whom had been decorating the Athenian
acropolis since about the time Socrates
reached the age of thirty.
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Good looks and proper bearing were
important to a man's political prospects, for
beauty and goodness were linked in the
popular imagination. The existing sources
agree that Socrates was profoundly ugly,
resembling a satyr more than a man—and
resembling not at all the statues that turned
up later in ancient times and now grace
Internet sites and the covers of books.
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He had wide-set, bulging eyes that darted
sideways and enabled him, like a crab, to
see not only what was straight ahead, but
what was beside him as well; a flat,
upturned nose with flaring nostrils; and large
fleshy lips like an ass. Socrates let his hair
grow long, Spartan-style (even while Athens
and Sparta were at war), and went about
barefoot and unwashed, carrying a stick and
looking arrogant. He didn‘t change his
clothes but efficiently wore in the daytime
what he covered himself with at night.
enemy soldiers kept their distance.
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Socrates believed the true self is not the
body, but the soul (or psyche). He believed
that the appearance of the body is less
important than how well it functions. True
beauty is inner beauty, beauty of spirit and
character. Happiness, like goodness, is a
matter of inner qualities. He preferred a
good and beautiful soul to a pleasing body
that housed a lesser self. Socrates believed
the psyche is the essence of happiness. His
concept of the psyche was a combination of
what we think of as mind and soul. The soul
is the conscious self, intellectual and moral