Don't go into discussion section thinking, "Oh, I can't talk. I don't have any background in philosophy.

不要用课堂讨论的思维，哦，我不知道说什么，我没有哲学基础。

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It doesn't presuppose any background in philosophy.

它并不需要任何哲学基础。

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For your readings, you are reading one of the meditations in my book, where I talk about it a little bit more in length, and I also gave the philosophical foundation, " because in many ways this goes against "counting and thinking" that has been so dominant in our 20th and 21st century thinking about morality.

你们正在读我书中的冥想部分，书中有更详细的阐述，也给出了哲学基础，因为在很多方面有别于“数数和思考“,那种方法在20和21世纪处于统治地位,思考道德。

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So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

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