He claims that this is a hidden bias in the whole history of metaphysics.
他认为这是形而上学历史中隐藏的偏见。
And some metaphysical views you might say just exactly like what the train the car stages are the metaphysically fundamental things.
从另外的形而上学角度,你可能会认为跟火车一样,汽车的阶段,就是形而上学来说基本的东西。
It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.
这不一定是按时间顺序排列的,但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是,一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力,起源,思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。
If--Babies are not--Human babies are not, sort of, metaphysically cute.
如果,孩子不是,人类的孩子不是,有几分,形而上学的可爱。
I'm not quite sure,because we have to turn to a metaphysical question that we've touched upon before,namely,can souls split?
我不太确定,因为要先提出一个以前说过的,形而上学的问题,就是,灵魂可以分裂么?
So again,I'm going to suppose here on out that the metaphysical view that I've been sketching is right; that physicalism is true.
所以我要再次假设,我描绘的那个形而上学的观点是正确的;,物理主义是正确的。
metaphysically there're different ways of trying to pose the set of issues that I've begun to talk about.
从形而上学来看我们有,不同的方法来提出,我刚才说的论点。
He is a contemporary metaphysician teacher Suppose that my son builds a tower out of wooden blocks.
他是圣母大学研究当代形而上学的,假设我的儿子用木积木,搭了一座塔。
Last time we turned to the question of what the metaphysical key to personal identity might be.
上次我们谈到,对于人格同一性的概念而言,形而上学的关键是什么。
I don't know the philology side, I don't know what disables to metaphysical questions.
我不知道者从语言学上来说对不对,我也不懂从形而上学角度看,有什么问题。
That's the metaphysical thesis that Socrates comes to by thinking about cases.
这就是苏格拉底通过思考例子,得出的形而上学的论点。
If they're really, bottom line, metaphysically speaking, the same thing, then you couldn't have one without the other after all.
如果从形而上学的角度说,它们终归是一体的,那你根本不可能将两者分离开来
Still if we ask, "What's doing the metaphysical ?" work here?" What's the key to ? being the same person?
如果我们问,“这和形而上学,有什么关系,成为同一个人的关键是什么?
Plato's idea is that if we start doing enough metaphysics, we can see there must be this realm of Platonic ideas, Platonic forms.
柏拉图的观点是,如果我们对形而上学有充分的研究,就必能看到柏拉图式的,理念或是型相组成的世界
So when I use the word "Soul," I will try to reserve it for the metaphysical view, according to which souls are something immaterial.
所以当我使用"灵魂"这个词时,我将会把它用在形而上学的观点里,这种观点认为,灵魂是非物质的
At least not if we try to take these claims fairly literally or take them to be metaphysical claims about the nature of death.
至少在我们从字面意义上,或从形而上学上解释死亡的本质时看不到。
So to explain all this we need now a sort of crash course in Plato's metaphysics.
要解释这些,我们现在得恶补一点柏拉图的形而上学
It seems to just violate one of our fundamental notions about how people work,metaphysically speaking.
这似乎违背了一个基本概念,即是从形而上学观点看关于人存在的基本看法。
It seems to violate one of the fundamental metaphysical things about how people work.
这似乎违背了形而上学理论关于人存在的基本概念。
For the first half of the course, we've been engaged in metaphysics,broadly speaking.
这个课程的前半部分,我们广义地探讨了形而上学。
We need to ask about the metaphysics of the soul,can souls split?
一个关于灵魂的形而上学的问题,灵魂能够分裂吗?
The crucial premise--Again, we're going to just grant Plato the metaphysics.
关键的前提是,我们依然直接承认柏拉图的形而上学
What's the metaphysical composition of people, on the one hand?
一方面要搞清形而上学中,人的构造是什么
That approach pretty clearly isn't going to work for souls, because a soul--and again, we've got in mind this metaphysical view, according to which it's something immaterial-- isn't something we see.
但这种方法显然不能用来证明灵魂的存在,因为灵魂,我再一次说明,从这种形而上学的角度来看,灵魂是非物质实体,我们看不到它
Metaphysically,I'm not sure whether that's a possibility or not.
形而上学地,我不确定这是否可能。
That's where we're at in terms of the metaphysics.
形而上学来说就是这样。
And then you'd have all these metaphysical conundrums.
随即你便会陷入一堆形而上学的谜团中去
The first half of the class was metaphysics.
前半部分是探讨形而上学。
Suppose we accept all that metaphysics.
假设我们承认这些形而上学。
That's Plato's picture of metaphysics.
这就是柏拉图眼中的形而上学
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