| Ideas is a kind of long-term plan about people' s attitude towards life. The national idea is that the whole nation look forward to a rosy future. It encourages the whole nation to go forward. The ancient Greek not only created the splendid material civilization, but also set up their own spirit home. The ancient Greek Sophoses formed their special humanism ideas through considering life and inquiring the essence of life. These ideas influenced the Greek polis, citizens and their brilliant civilization. After Atheno-Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek polis declined. But their humanism ideas have passed through the long history and gotten into the tradition of the western humanism. They have been the wealth of the whole humanbeing. Under Globlization, people become the slaves of the mechanical times. Our spirit home is poor and our emotional world is barren. How can we find ourselves and confirm our position in the universe again? Maybe, the aneient Greek humanism ideas point out the direction for us.This essay tries to combine the ancient Greek humanism idea with the social changes to grasp the course of building the ancient humanism idea. The essay shows the relationship between the idea and the social development. And the experience of... |