And very interesting for positive psychologists, those concerned with wellbeing and happiness: their wellbeing and happiness levels were incredibly similar.
让积极心理学学者,和研究幸福和快乐的人,更感兴趣的是:,这些双胞胎的幸福和快乐水平非常相似。
People have their own definitions of happiness. What does happiness mean to you?
每个人对于幸福都有不同的定义。对你来说,幸福是什么?
A man who is living in a polis not doing well, how can he be happy? There's just no way.
一个生活在城邦里的人没有做好本分,他怎么会幸福,这是不可能的事情
And this leads to the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number.
从而引出“为最多的人谋求最大的幸福“这一原则。
They thought everyone who'd be taking this class would be taking it because they are already really happy and they want to study about how amazing they are.
他们认为每个上这门课的人会上这门课,是因为他们已经很幸福了,他们想研究自己到底有多棒。
If you go back to the Declaration of Independence, it doesn't say: "We Americans believe these truths to be self-evident. " It says: "We believe these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and all men are entitled to life liberty and the pursuit of happyness."
如果你回头再看看独立宣言,上面并没有说:,美国人相信,这些都是不言而喻的真理“,上面所说的是,我们相信这些真理不言而喻,从而,人人平等,所有人都拥有,人身自由,都有追求幸福的权利“
So, to summarize, the happiest, the most fortunate man that Solon ever knew was a dead Athenian that nobody ever heard of.
总而言之,梭仑所说的,最幸福最幸运的人,是个无人知晓的已故雅典人
So there is counter evidentce that shows that not everyone, level of wellbeing is determined by their genes.
有可靠证据显示,并非每一个人的,幸福水平都取决于基因。
Bentham's utilitarianism is sometimes summed up with the slogan "The greatest good for the greatest number."
边沁的功利主义有时被总结为一句口号,为最多的人谋求最大的幸福“
Croesus asked Solon to tell him who is the happiest, the most fortunate--both of those things contained in the words he uses--that he had ever seen.
克罗伊斯问梭伦,谁是你见过的,最幸福,最幸运的人,他用了一个词来表示这两重意思
The first was the objection, the claim that utilitarianism, " by concerning itself with the greatest good for the greatest number, fails adequately to respect individual rights.
第一点异议,是说功利主义,只关注“为最多的人谋求最大的幸福,没有充分地尊重个人权利。
Solon, as he looked around at his fabulous wealth and great good fortune, who do you think is the happiest, he said, fortunate man you ever knew?
梭仑看到了他身边无数的财宝,和数不尽的财富,然后回答,"谁是你知道的最幸福,最幸运的人"
One Wow to the good life.
一个能让人过上幸福生活的令人惊奇的诀窍。
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