That is to say, theory has certain ambitions to a totalization of what can be thought that resembles or rivals philosophy.
也就是说,理论探讨的问题,与哲学相似或相媲美,而且倾向于把它完整化。
And I want to talk to them about the challenges that we're facing
我想与他们探讨我们所面临的困难,
We're going to explore in the days and weeks to come the contrast between consequentialist and categorical moral principles.
我们将用以后的几天到几周时间来探讨,后果主义与绝对主义道德原则的差别。
And this is something I think we should return to later on when we talk about social interaction and social relationships.
这个我们先放在这里,等到我们探讨,社会交往与社会关系的时候再回头来看。
They provide the constitutional framework within which we later figures operate.
他们提供宪法架构,供我们在日后依据探讨与运作。
This idea that humans have evolved, that physical changes have occurred in humans as a consequence of their food environment, has led us to where we are now.
探讨人与食物的关系,探讨人类机体,由于食物环境而产生的变化,是我们今天坐在这里的原因
We are able to talk about the fact that two plus one equals three, but it's not as though we ever come across numbers-- number three itself--anywhere in the empirical world.
我们可与去探讨,二加一等于三的这个事实,但是我们不可能有一天真的碰到数字,在现实世界中碰到个叫"数字三"的东西
In fact, language is sufficiently interesting that, unlike most other things I'll talk about in this class, there is an entier field devoted to this study the field of linguistics that is entirely devoted to studying the nuances and structures of different languages.
事实上,语言是非常有意思的,与本门课上探讨的其他主题不同,对它的研究形成了一个完整的专业,即语言学专业,这个专业致力于研究各种语言的,细微差异及其结构
Morality is extremely central to our lives, and a deep question, which we will struggle with throughout most of the course, is the question of good and evil, evil and good.
道德在我们生活中是极为核心的,我们要在大部分课中探讨的,一个深入的问题,就是善与恶的问题,恶与善
The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.
这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西
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