But the question is how are those of us of this generation, living that ethic out in the early 21st century?
但问题是,我们这代人如何,将在21世纪初的生活中体现这一道德?
But now, imagine that we are living in the early years of a polis sometime in the eighth century B.C.
但是,现在想象一下,假如我们生活在公元前八世纪
I was particularly interested in metaphysical poetry political philosophy -- I wrote my thesis on a radical political philosopher of the 17th century of the civil war period.
我尤其感兴趣的是玄学诗派,和政治哲学,我的毕业论文,就是有关一名激进的政治哲学家,他生活在内战的十八世纪。
Then from these beginnings, engineers transformed life in the twentieth century: a lot of things started in the twentieth century and became common place.
从此开始,工程师们改变了二十世纪的生活,有很多东西在二十世纪发明并得到普及
The Greeks already had a century's long tradition of poetic education going back centuries to the time of Homer and Hesiod that set out certain exemplary models of heroic virtue and civic life.
希腊人已有世纪长的,诗学教育传统,可回溯到几个世纪前的荷马,与赫西奥德,他们为,英雄美德与公民生活确立了典范。
When we think of the kinds of examples of material machines that we've got available to us in the fourteenth century, I try to imagine what would somebody in the fourteenth century think to himself or herself when he entertains the possibility that a plant might just be a machine?
当我们回想14世纪时期的,各种机器,我试着想象,一个生活在14世纪的人,他,或她,在面对一株植物可能,只不过是一台机器的观点时会怎么想
Some of them were alive in the ninth and certainly some of them were alive in the time of Homer in the eighth.
有些生活在九世纪 当然,还有些生活在荷马所在的八世纪
They were alive in the tenth century.
他们生活在十世纪
If you were to say to me, what do you think is the most important thing, however you define thing, that has changed the character of life in the United States in the twentieth century, I would say the disappearance of farmers.
如果你问我,我认为什么才是,最重要的东西,你认为是什么,在二十世纪改变了,美国人的生活方式,我会说是农民退出了历史舞台
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