在古希腊神话中,既是雅典的保护神又是智慧之神的雅典娜身旁有一只猫头鹰,总是在黄昏时起飞。这只作为思想和理性象征的猫头鹰的活动方式,似乎暗示这样一个道理:人类理性精神的培育和成熟,并非在一种社会制度的鼎盛期,而在潜伏危机、深度震荡和催生新时代的过渡期。希腊哲学的全盛出现于希腊社会迅速式微就是明证。 In ancient Greek mythology, there was an owl beside Athena, the god of protection and god of wisdom, who always took off at dusk. The act of owls, symbolized only by ideology and rationality, seems to suggest the truth that the cultivation and maturation of the rational spirit of humanity are not at the heyday of a social system but at the transitional stages of latent crises, deep concussion and birth of a new era period. The heyday of Greek philosophy is evident in the rapid decline of Greek society.