08读后感大赛初中组一等奖作品选登

ENJOYING THE PROCESS

单子轩 哈尔滨风华中学

Sometimes it is so difficult for us to say what we really want. However,I think the most important thing for us is usually not what one’s dream is, but the process of making one’s dream come ture. Our life is full of happiness. The people that couldn’t enjoy the process is pitiful.

In the story ,the Psammead gave wishes. But the wish was only for one day,in other words,everything went back to what it had been when the sun went down.Well,the beauty that doesn’t need working hard to exchange is always momentary.And did they enjoy themselves during the whole day?I don’t think so.Also,it brought more problems to them.They preferred reaping where they had not sown to earning their own living.More and more problems told them it was impossible,or their life would become such a boring thing.Only trying their best in order to realize their ideal could make their heart feel glad at their success.Perhaps they would understand it at last.Daniel Defoe is so smart a woman and it is truly a very meaningful story for students.

The way to succeed is very,very long.A flower came out after the baptism of strong wind and heavy rain,an actor practiced for many years before performing well.That is to say,your life will be boring and tiring if you don’t know how to enjoy the process .The long way to success has one trouble follows another. Your parents,teachers and close friends convinced you that there really was an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it and made you believe that there really was good in the world when you were in trouble.In this process,you could see many people helping you ,they showed their love in different ways.You would begin to learn how to tell right from wrong ,and every time you did better than before.Then you could find your life is filled with joy and warmth.You could taste sour,sweet,bitter and hot-joys and sorrows of life.That is really a kind of happiness.Everything and everbody makes you grow up as a good man.You should also try to enjoy yourself despite your suffering,you can enjoy the process better.If you work hard before winning,the result will not be so important to you.As the saying goes,” The bitterness ends,and the sweetness begins.”You may feel like being the richest in the word when you win,for you could get a great deal of knowledge,skills and happiness,and understand the ture meaning of life in the process.Nothing will not make you regretful when you succeed because you have done the best you can.That is enough for you.

Therefore,the people who don’t work hard but also easily got success are shallow because they had far fewer chances to reflect.They couldn’t realize the importance of finding happiness in the process and didn’t know the ture meaning of life at all so that life is nothing special to them.There is no doublt that you won’t feel full of sweetness when you win if you don’t learn to enjoy the process.Those people who haven’t tried hard in order to make their own dream come ture are the ones who look very happy but actually not.What a pity!They can’t be eager for success in the process and can’t get the motive power of woking from the process,although they have won.Robinson must have enjoyed himself on the island or he could’t leave alone for 28 years.Edison must have enjoyed his life,or he wouldn’t do 1,000 experiments.However,you would find there was a series of footmarks when you turn back to see the long road you have crossed.As you look back,scenes of the past leap beofer your eyes.All the things make you laugh or cry.That is your spirit wealth.you have enjoyed the process,you are a capital man.

As we all know,the importance of the Olymic games is not winning but taking part in.People give appluse to not only the winner but also the ones who have tried hard .Try your best,and enjoy the process .That is the true meaning of Olympic games.We chinese must understand it and find beauty during our lifetime.

Do you know what you really want?If you have your own dream,never give up,keep going on,enjoy the process ,and you will win.

Life itsely is a process.Enjoy it,and our life will become more and more brilliant.I remember that Micheal Jordan,the most famous basketball palyer across the world had said,”Experierce the sunshine today,and tomorrow the rays and sunlight will be all over the say.”

第二篇：08读后感大赛大学组一等奖作品选登

[08读后感大赛大学组一等奖作品选登]The Republic

Written by Plato, The Republic is a Socratic dialogue. It was written in approximately 360 BC, and is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory. It is also the longest of his works with the exception of The Laws, and is no doubt the greatest of them. In this book, Socrates and many other people discuss the nature of philosophy, the justice of states, Plato’s Theory of Forms and the conflict between philosophy and poetry.

Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, and like Confucius among the Chinese, was the first who conceived of a method of knowledge. He was the greatest metaphysical genius the world has seen. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to later ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato. Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or more dramatic power of humor or imagery. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics and in literature. Just as a philosopher said, “All the western philosophical traditions are just footnotes to Plato’s philosophy theories.” It is no exaggeration at all, and there is no doubt that Plato’s thought has infiltrated the blood vessels of the western thought system. Many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.

The title of The Republic in Greek, “Politeia”, literally means the constitution or regime type of a political community. For various reasons, this was rendered in Latin as republica, the ‘republic business’ or the ‘Commonwealth’. Greek works used to be referred to by their Latin titles, and so Plato’s dialogue came to be known in English as The Republic. It is not, however, primarily a work on republicanism in the modern sense of the term. The dialogue is set in the house of Polemarohus at Piraeus, a city-port connected to Athens by the Long Walls. The whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually takes place---possibly to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and another unnamed person.

The argument of The Republic is the pursuit of justice. “A just county is one in which the organization of the politics, or city-state, mirrors the organization of the tripartite soul. Thus the three classes in the politics correspond to a part of the soul respectively and the auxiliaries correspond to the spirited part of the soul. Each of the three classes, according to their engagement in their particular corresponding part of the soul, has a virtue most appropriate to it. The guardians must be wisdom, and the auxiliaries must be courageous, and all three must exhibit moderation.”

The whole dialogue discusses and defines justice step by step. In Book I, two definitions of justice are proposed by Polemarchus and Thrasymachus but deemed inadequate. Socrates agrees with Polemarchus that justice includes helping friends, but says the just man would never do harm to anybody. Then Socrates persuades Thrasymachus to admit that the strong man who makes a mistake is not the strong man in the precise sense, and some of his knowledge

is required to rule perfectly. However, it is far from a satisfactory definition of justice.

In Book II，Plato’s two brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, challenge Socrates to define justice in the man. To respond to the views of injustice and justice presented by Glaucon and Adeimantus, Socrstes claims incompetence, but feels it would be impious to leave justice in such doubt. Thus The Republic sets out to define justice. Afterwards, Socrates converts his discussion into the justice in the city, which he suggests may help them see justice in the person, but on a larger scale.

Socrates’ definition of justice is never unconditionally stated, only versions of justice within each city are “found” and evaluated in Book II though Book V. Socrates defines justice as “working at that which is naturally best suited”, and “to do one’s own business and not to be a busybody”, and goes on to say that justice sustains and perfects the other three cardinal virtues: Temperance, Wisdom, and Courage. And that justice is the cause and condition of their existence. “Socrates does not include justice as a virtue within the city, suggesting that justice does not exist within the human soul either, rather it is a result of a ‘well ordered’ soul. A result of this conception of justice separates people into three types, that of the soldier, that of the producer, and that of the ruler. If a ruler can create just laws, and if the producers can obey this authority, then society will be just.”

In Book V, Socrates makes some assertions about the equality of the sexes. Yet the issue shifts in Book VI to whether this just city is possible. Book VII-X deal with Plato’s criticism of the forms of government. Plato considers Aristocracy as the ideal one, while he proposes that all conceivable polities may be reduced to Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Dictatorship.

I wonder what justice really is. According to Plato, justice is the order of the state, and the state is the visible embodiment of justice under the conditions of human society. The Greek ideal of the state, as of the individual, is a fair mind in a fair body. In my opinion, the most valuable reward to a just soul is happiness, for the soul of justice is the happiest one. In this point, a man who lives up to justice is happy. This happiness is not only a comfort for conscience，but also a common happiness in daily life. So I’d say justice and happiness connect with each other and keep to the standard of social convention. Virtue is based upon justice, and justice is also based on the good, which is the harmony of society, and is reflected both in that institutions of States and in motions of the heavenly bodies.

Then what is the real virtue that is connected with justice? Socrates proceeds to discuss the consideration of the immortality of the soul. “To everything, there is a special vice or infirmity attached, by which, and which alone, that thing can be destroyed. Thus the peculiar infirmities attached to the soul are injustice, intemperance, cowardice, and ignorance. Can these bring about the dissolution of the soul? No, certainly not. Because

they cannot destroy the soul immediately as a disease destroys the body.” But if wickedness cannot destroy the soul, nothing else can; therefore the soul is immortal.” Personally, I think virtue exists in everyone’s soul, just as the old Chinese saying goes, “All men are born good.” It is the environment that changes human’s quality. One can enjoy life with honesty, kindness and faith. A soul of virtue is the real paradise of a man.

Still, another question puzzles me---what the Republic that Plato represented was like? Is an ideal society really one of justice? Well in Plato’s ideal State, “no man calls anything his own”, and there is “neither marriage nor giving in marriage”, and “kings are philosophers”, and “philosophers are kings”, and there is higher education, intellectual as well as of moral and religious, of science as well as art, and not out youth only but of the whole of life. In fact, such a state is hardly to be realized in this world and would quickly degenerate. To the perfect ideal succeeds the government of soldiers and the lovers of honor, this again declines into democracy, and democracy into tyranny. When “the wheel has come full circle”, we do not begin again with a new period of human life, but we have passed from the best to the worst, and there we end. In my opinion, there is no need for us to discuss whether a state such as Plato has presented is practical or not. For the practicability of his ideal has nothing to do with his truth. It is Plato’s dream in philosophy and politics as well as a call for justice in society. It is an imaginary state where people live with justice , honesty and virtue. The great success of dialectic or the organization of ideas has no real content, but is only a type of the method or spirit in which the higher knowledge is to be pursued by all the spectators of all times and all existence. It is the creativity and imagination of Plato, and the contribution it has made to modern philosophy not the realization of such a state that really counts.

The Republic is Plato’s ideal in philosophy and politics, which is worth our respect and appreciation. The contribution it has made to modern philosophy is remarkable, and Plato’s imagination is of great significance. Accordingly, such a classic book is really worth reading and studying.