It's the view that probably most of you believe, but again, it's worth noting that philosophically it can be challenged.
这是一种我们大多数人都相信的观点,但是再一次的,需要指出,从哲学讲它是站不住脚的
Callicles tells Socrates "Philosophy is a pretty toy if one indulges in it with moderation at the right time of life.
他告诉苏格拉底,如果一个人在年轻时代,有节制地享受哲学的乐趣,那自然大有裨益。
They're usually addressed to groups of people, and they deal with sort of philosophical sounding issues, and they give advice on group problems.
通常是写给一群人的,讨论哲学问题,给团体问题提出一些建议。
In that chapter, chapter 46, Hobbes writes: "There is nothing so absurd that the old philosophers have not some of them maintained.
在这一章里,第46章,霍布斯写道:,“世界上没有任何事情会荒谬到,连老哲学家中也没有人支持的。
He'd think to himself I'm the very same person who was lecturing about philosophy last week.
他会以为,我和上星期上哲学课的人,是同一个人。
Like philosopher talks about the nature of love can easily be confusing, can be dishonest.
就像哲学家谈论爱的天性一样,很容易让人迷惑,真不真实。
The person who best captures the unconstrained view, Benjamin Constant, French philosopher and politician, " "It is for self-perfectioning that destiny calls us."
最好地阐述了本性受约束观点的人,法国哲学家政治家Benjamin,Constant说,“命运召唤我们进行自我完善“
For some, philosophy represents a form of liberation from confusion, from unruly passions and prejudices, from incoherence.
对某些人而言,哲学代表着一种形式,将人从从困惑,任性的激情,偏见,及无厘头中解放出来。
But it's worth taking a moment to flag the fact that there are people, there are philosophers, who think we can generalize across all humans.
但是值得一提的是,有些人,有些哲学家,认为我们可以把所有人进行归类。
But it's a tempting philosophical thought to say, "Once I've shown it's better never to have been born, " it follows that suicide is the appropriate response."
但这是一个引诱人的哲学想法,“一旦我明白了最好还是不要出生,就会出自杀是合适行动的结论“
Plato and Aristotle give their own vision- the philosopher-king the great-souled man Megalopsychos or megalopsychos.
或政治家所应具备的特质,柏拉图与亚里士多德-,给出他们自己的愿景,哲学家国王,高尚灵魂的人。
that expresses the will of the majority, the will of the greater number be rendered compatible with the needs of philosophy and the claims to respect ? only reason and a better argument?
众人意志的民主,及大多数人的意志,能够兼容,哲学需求,及尊重理性,及进阶辩论的诉求吗?
So we're asking the metaphysical question: What kind of a thing is a person?
所以我们在讨论的是一个哲学问题,人是一种什么样的东西
In broad scope, the first half of the class is going to be metaphysics, for those of you who are familiar with the philosophical piece of jargon.
广泛上讲,这门课程的前半部分,对于你们中熟悉哲学术语的人来说,将会是形而上学。
But rather unlike Socrates, rather in staying to drink the hemlock, Aristotle left Athens and was reported to have said he did not wish to see the Athenians sin against philosophy for a second time.
但不像苏格拉底,没有留下来喝毒芹,亚里士多德离开了雅典,据称还曾说过,不愿再次看到雅典人,反对哲学的罪孽。
My hope is that if I do it well enough, people who aren't philosophers and are interested exclusively in conceptual analysis will get something out of it.
我希望如果我做得足够好,可以让那些不是哲学家但是,对概念分析感兴趣的人,得到一些启发。
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