Is there any good reason to believe that we don't believe that we're going to cease to exist as a person?
有没有一个好的理由相信,我们不相信,自己会停止作为一个人的存在呢?
And it's reason for British people to be excited when, you know, someone has a wedding,
当皇室举办婚礼的时候,英国人有了一个兴奋的理由,
The question we're asking is, "Is there a good reason to add to our list of things there are?
我们的问题是,有没有一个很好的理由,让我们往已写有东西的清单上再添上几笔
So, that's the first point: It's material. The second point is that narrative has a form, and that it can be constructed, built.
这就是我第一个观点:它是物质的,第二个理由是,叙述故事有一个框架,它可以像一个手工品一样。
Well, when people are in an absurd situation their minds rationalize it by inventing a comfortable illusion."
当人们陷入一种很荒谬的情况时“,”他们就会想出一个理由来使这种情况变得合理“
It's dark. The other, dark, in the sense of gloomy, not good, bad; this is a hard time, a poor time, a wretched time, a miserable time.
因此称之为黑暗,另一个理由是,黑暗从悲观的角度来说就是不好的,坏的,这是一个艰难的时代,一个穷苦的时代,一个不幸的时代,一个悲惨的时代
It looks like a tautology because you're never able to show me something that moves forever at a constant velocity, because every time you don't find such a thing, I give an excuse, namely, a force is acting.
这听上去像个死循环,因为你不可能,找到永远匀速运动下去的物体,因为每当你找不到这样的物体时,我就会给出一个理由,也就是,有力作用在上面
Now,Gambetta,who was a smart guy who dies very young, he said that France became a republic because most of the people wanted a republic and they didn't want a monarchy, and that's all there was to it.
甘贝塔,一个英年早逝的聪明人,认为法国能成为共和国,是因为大部分人想要有一个共和国,他们不要君主国,那就是全部理由
So, if you're looking for another reason to quit, if you're looking for a reason not to start smoking, here's another good one.
因此,如果你正在寻找戒烟的另一个理由,如果你正在寻找一个不开始吸烟的理由,这就是很好的一个。
This is purely covalent because all it is is homonuclear bond energies.
是一个完全的共价成分,他的理由是他们都是同核共价。
None of you got smallpox vaccinations, because once a country was certified to be smallpox free, there was no reason to-- there was no reason to vaccinate people any longer.
你们当中没人接种过天花疫苗,因为一旦一个国家确认不再有天花,就没有理由,就没有理由再给人们接种
You have to tell me one thing.
告诉我一个理由
And concomitantly a second reason is that that Civil Rights revolution also brought, through its process, a huge discovery at the same time of Northern racism, when Martin Luther King brought the movement to Chicago and nearly got killed doing it.
还有第二个理由就是,民权运动的经过也带来了一个大发现,那就是北方的种族主义,当马丁路德金把运动带到了芝加哥,他差点因此丧命
There were many, many reasons. One being UCLA is...
有很多,很多理由。一个是UCLA是……
We will initially think about the first question: Do we have any good reason to believe in souls at all?
我们将要开始考虑第一个问题,我们到底有没有理由去相信灵魂的存在
And if the best the soul theorist can say is, "I can't explain it and neither can you," that's not a reason to believe this side.
如果灵魂理论者最多只能说,我不能解释,你也不能,这不是一个相信灵魂存在的理由
Next question is going to have to be: If there are, do we have any good reason to think that they survive the death of the body?
下一个问题将是,如果存在,我们有没有很好的理由去相信,肉体死亡后灵魂依旧存活
I think the answer is to be found, or at least one answer-- the truth is there are many answers-- in that they are just terribly interesting, but that's very much of a-- what's the word I want, the opposite of objective subjective observation by me.
我想这不难回答,至少也能举出一个理由,当然实际上我们有太多的理由,那就是古希腊太有意思了,不过这个答案显得太,那个词是什么来着,客观的反义词,显得太主观了
Earlier the objection was, We had no good reason to think the soul was one of the building blocks from which we're composed; we have no good reason to think it's one of the pieces that was around before our body got put together, before our birth.
早一点的反驳意见是,我们没有好的理由来相信灵魂,是组成我们的一个基础部件,我们没有好的理由去相信它是,在我们出生前,身体形成前就存在的部分之一
The final aspect of self that I want to talk about is the idea that what you do makes sense.
我想讲的关于自我的最后一个方面,就是为自己的行为寻找理由。
Possibility number two is the facts change your behavior by giving you a reason to behave differently.
第二种可能是事实改变了你的行为,通过给了你一个改变行为的理由。
One is the insufficient justification effect, which is so famous it had a cartoon based on it.
其中一个就是理由不足效应,这是一个很著名的理论,有一个卡通就是根据它改编的。
Even if recycling takes place, we don't have any good reason yet to believe that the soul is one of the recycled parts.
即使循环的确发生了,我们并没有很好的理由来相信,灵魂就是一个循环的部件
Well, Plato's very next argument attempts to persuade us that indeed we do have reason to believe that the soul is one of the prior-existing pieces.
柏拉图下面一个论证就试着,说服我们有理由相信,灵魂原来就是存在的
And it's true; each group needed a justification for lying about the task.
这是真的;,每一组都需要一个理由来支持他们的谎言。
Now, there's a reason why this study is bad science.
现在,有一个理由说明为什么这个研究很垃圾。
He only had one argument not to kill himself: "To sleep, perchance to dream, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil might give us pause."
他只有一个不自杀的理由:,“入睡,偶尔作梦,因为在沉睡中,什么梦都会出现,我们可以从中暂时摆脱尘世的烦恼”
But more importantly still--those are all crucial but there's an extra ingredient as well-- he thinks he's got good reason to believe, when he dies he's going to go, basically, to what we'd call heaven.
更重要的是,当然前面几点也很重要,但是还有更重要的一点,他觉得他有理由相信,他死后他将去到一个,我们通常称为天堂的地方
Since they are sentient, free creatures, they should have a right to do whatever they want unless there is a compelling argument against it and a compelling argument would have to involve some infringement of the freedom of other people.
因为他们都是有知觉的自由个体,他们有权做他们想做的事,除非有非常强烈的理由反对他们这么做,而这种强烈的理由是指,这种行为会侵害另一个人的自由。
If these are facts about how Peggy Sue likes to kiss and tell, or then goes around and talks about who's a good kisser and who's a bad kisser, maybe that gives you a reason to not continue what you're doing.
如果这些是关于Peggy,Sue如何喜欢接吻并告诉,或者然后到处去谈论谁是接吻高手,谁接吻很烂的事实的话,也许那就给了你一个不再继续你此时行为的理由。
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