2022年1月31日 星期一

懷德海對話錄中的名學者：Walter Cannon 、Richard Livingstone

 

Plato





Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (23 January 1880 – 26 December 1960) was a British classical scholar, educationist, and academic administrator.[1][2] He promoted the classical liberal arts.

Life[edit]

Livingstone was born on 23 January 1880 in Liverpool. His father was an Anglican vicar; his mother the daughter of an Irish baron. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He remained at the University of Oxford until 1924 as fellow, tutor, and librarian at Corpus Christi College. In 1920, he served on the Prime Minister's committee on the classics. During 1920–22, he was co-editor of the Classical Review.

From 1924 to 1933, Livingstone served as Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He was knighted in 1931.

In 1933, Livingstone returned to Oxford, where he became President of Corpus Christi College. In 1944, he delivered the Rede Lecture at Cambridge on Plato and modern education. He served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1944 until 1947.

He retired in 1950 and spent his final years writing and lecturing. He died on 26 December 1960 in Oxford.

Books[edit]


Add: Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Edited in Translation by Sir Richard Livingstone. Oxford, London, 1943.




**** Walter Cannon


科學讀書人: 一個生理學家的筆記 (第3版)

The Science Reader: Notes from a Physiologist

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潘震澤
三民書局股份有限公司
2020/12/18


Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear. The anomaly is recognized as "psychosomatic" in that death is caused by an emotional response—often fear—to some suggested outside force. Voodoo death is particularly noted in native societies, and concentration- or prisoner of war camps, but the condition is not specific to any particular culture.[1]

fiz·zle (fzl)

intr.v. fiz·zled, fiz·zling, fiz·zles
1. To make a hissing or sputtering sound.
2. Informal To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.
n. Informal
A failure; a fiasco.
[Probably from obsolete fise, a breaking wind, from Middle English, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse fsa, to break wind.]
Word History: Philemon Holland, in his 1601 translation of Pliny's Natural History, wrote that if asses eat a certain plant, "they will fall a fizling and farting." Holland's asses provide a vivid example of the original meaning of the word fizzle, which was, in the decorous phrasing of the Oxford English Dictionary, "to break wind without noise." During the 19th century fizzle took on a related but more respectable sense, "to hiss, as does a piece of fireworks," illustrated by a quotation from the November 7, 1881, issue of the London Daily News: "unambitious rockets which fizzle doggedly downwards." In the same century fizzle also took on figurative senses, one of which seems to have been popular at Yale. The Yale Literary Magazine for 1849 helpfully defines the word as follows: "Fizzle, to rise with modest reluctance, to hesitate often, to decline finally; generally, to misunderstand the question." The figurative sense of fizzle that has caught on is the one most familiar today, "to fail or die out."



fizzle

 noun

Definition of fizzle (Entry 2 of 2)

: an abortive effort : FAILURE


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