And I found there were very few philosophers to even touch that topic, it was just something that they just assumed that somehow, yes, of course all humans have dignity and moral status and rights.

我发现很少有哲学家,研究这一问题，他们只是理所当然的假设,是的，全体人类都有,尊严，有道德标准，也有自己的权利。

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He had a point because philosophy distances us from conventions, from established assumptions, and from settled beliefs.

因为哲学的确将我们与习俗，既定假设以及原有信条相疏离。

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It does not presuppose any background in philosophy.

不假设你们之前学过任何哲学。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

suppose we make for, the moment, the bold conjecture, the philosophical claim, that not only is pleasure and the absence of pain, not only is pleasure one good thing and pain one bad thing.

假设此刻我们做出大胆猜测，哲学声称，不仅只,快乐和没有痛苦，快乐不止是一样好的东西，痛苦不止是一样坏的东西。

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