If I wanted you to care about an animal, I would do well to describe it as if it were human.
如果我想你关心动物,我就把它当成人一样描述。
Do you think in some ways it is back to you being confronted with the rights of animals, in some way someone has to be confronted with poverty.
您是否觉得某种程度上来说,这和,您当时面对动物权利的问题时一样,一些人也不得不直面贫困问题。
So as one reads the epic one senses this very deep ambivalence regarding the relative virtues and evils of civilized life and many of the features that make us human.
当人们读到这一段的时候,总是会对文明生活方式的利弊,产生一种很矛盾的感情,然而正是这些特性让人区别于动物。
a little of that here with you today, to go over what Aristotle is suggesting in this idea of man, the polis animal.
我只能示范一些给你们看,要如何阅读亚里士多德所提示的概念,即人是城邦的动物。
Therefore, when he is without virtue, man is the most savage of animals.
因此,当人丧失了美德,他就会成为最野蛮的动物
The animals become sick from it and humans become sick from it.
无论是动物还是人的健康都深受其害
So I have advocated active use of euthanasia in both circumstances.
我也曾呼吁过使用安乐死,无论是对人还是对动物。
So does that means that they've got the same moral status as the animals?
这是否意味着这些人,的道德水准和动物是一样的呢?
All life, human and animal, is sacred to God.
所有生命,无论是人的,还是动物的,对上帝来说都是神圣的。
Aristotle in his Politics says this: "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when he is divided away from the law and justice."
亚里士多德在他的《政治学》中说,"完美的人是最好的动物,但如果他与法律和公正剥离开来,那也会是最糟糕的动物"
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