英文摘要 |
It is not only poets and philosophers who have for centuries wondered about the meaning of life; all of us wonder about it from time to time, if not virtually all the time. But now, at the beginning of the 21st century, we seem to be asking with a new urgency such questions as “What is ‘life’?” “What keeps us alive?” “What ensures our existence (and for how long) on this planet?” “Is human life finally any different from animal life?” The Greeks used two distinct words, zoe (the life of all living things, simple life, bare life) and bios (the life of the citizen), to exexpress two different aspects or forms of life.1 But can even these two terms suffice? |