But I don't think that it is very relevant if you think that it is better that a baby should die.

但我认为这与你的想法无关,无论你是否认为一个孩子的死亡是件好事。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

So I've often wondered if we're to read this differently: Who am I? I am who I am, and never you mind.

有常想如果我们以不同的方式解读：,我是谁？，我就是我，与你无关。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well, I would certainly never have make a career out of philosophy, if I have focused on issues that didn't have any impact on our lives.

我永远都不会,将哲学作为我的职业，如果我一直关注的是,与我们的生活无关紧要的话题。

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In other words, yeah, I still like it or don't like it, - but my liking has nothing to do either with desire or with approval-- moral, political, or however the case may be.

换句话说就是，没错，我还是喜欢它或者不喜欢它，但是这与我的主观意志无关-,不管是什么认同，道德，还是政治，与一切都无关。

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Let me read you a quick excerpt by Abraham Maslow who talks about this approach, "If one took a course or picked up a book on the psychology of learning, most of it, in my opinion, would be beside the point - that is, beside the 'humanistic' point.

我来给你们读一小段Abraham，Maslow的话，“如果有人上了一门关于心理学学习的课，或者看了一本这方面的书，大部分内容，在我看来，是与重点无关的-,也就是，与人性无关。

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Well, one answer is because what I-- how I score on that test isn't going to tell you anything about me It's not going to relate to my grades It's not going to relate to how well I'm liked ? How do we know the SAT is useful?

一个原因是,我在那个测试中的得分,不会透露出任何我的信息,与我的学习成绩无关,也不会说明我有多受欢迎,我们怎么知道SAT有没有用？

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I don't think it very relevant whether the death comes about because you withdraw life support, like a ventilator, or because you actually decide to end that child's life by giving the child a lethal injection.

我觉得这也与造成死亡的原因无关,无论是通过撤走维持生命的仪器，比如呼吸机，还是通过药物注射,结束孩子的生命。

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And when I asked about philosophy he said philosophy has nothing to say about death, only poetry has something to say about death.

当我问到哲学的时候,他说哲学与死亡无关，只有诗能够解读死亡。

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