So, that was more like solving chess puzzles, and I couldn't have seen a career on that.

所以这一切更像是解一个棋局，我原来从不认为哲学可以成为一种职业。

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It might be darkness. It might be spirit. Or in ancient Greek religion, a more sort of philosophical polytheism, it might be fate.

它可以是黑暗，也可以是一种精神，在古希腊的一个，偏向于哲学上多神论的宗教中，它可以是命运。

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So I mean philosophy can talk about how do we know we got a table here between us. Right?

比如，哲学可以告诉我们是怎么感知到,我们之间有一个桌子，对不对？

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Well, the thought, I suppose is, in philosopher's jargon, that the computer is a deterministic system.

对于这个观点,我认为,以哲学的语言可以表达为,电脑是个决定论的系统

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Every great moral philosopher has a strategy for helping us submit our passions to some kind of control, to some kind of supervening moral power.

每一位伟大的道德哲学家,都有其办法可以助我们,让激情得到某种控制，并进而产生某种道德的力量。

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There is in other words in Ricoeur's view a hermeneutics of suspicion, and "skepticism" or "suspicion" is a word that can also be appropriated perhaps more rigorously for philosophy as negativity.

换句话说，在利科看来存在着怀疑解释学，怀疑主义，或，怀疑,在哲学上表示否定是可以的,或许更严格。

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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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but once I could see that ethics and political philosophy really could make a difference to the way we live our lives.

但是当我看到，伦理学和政治哲学,的确可以改变我们的生活方式时。

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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。

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I think film mostly through the entertaining value and I know there is more to its essence I've never taking film class, so I hope the films might be interesting for us to discuss some philosophical concepts Never thought about like that.

我主要看到的是电影的娱乐价值,我也知道电影还有很多其他价值,我从没上过电影课,我希望这门课会很有趣,可以讨论一些哲学概念,我从没思考过这类问题。

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But he also encourage people not to study philosophy, or not to end there, and to go study and do something that would actually fulfill the ethical mandates of philosophy.

但是他却告诉人们不要去学哲学，或是不要局限于哲学，而是要学些别的东西,因为其他的知识可以,实现哲学提出的道德任务。

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The argument I'm going to give traces back to Descartes, the great early modern philosopher.

我要提到的这个论证,可以追溯到笛卡尔,一位伟大的早期近代哲学家

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Now this question can be discussed philosophically in quite general terms.

这个问题,可以作为哲学问题来讨论

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