Let's have a little review of the career of the great poet Orpheus as we get it certainly in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.
让我们看看伟大诗人俄耳甫斯的经历,这在《快乐的人》和《沉思的人》中都有所提及。
He sings a song in which he recalls all of those happy days that he had spent with his shepherd friend in the countryside.
歌中唱的是他与牧羊人朋友,在乡村度过的快乐日子。
And very interesting for positive psychologists, those concerned with wellbeing and happiness: their wellbeing and happiness levels were incredibly similar.
让积极心理学学者,和研究幸福和快乐的人,更感兴趣的是:,这些双胞胎的幸福和快乐水平非常相似。
So, you've got the best possible balance of wonderful pleasures and wonderful, fantastic experiences, since that's all there is to human wellbeing.
你获得最平衡的,美妙的快乐和美妙的体验,因为人类幸福仅在于此。
For Bentham, all that matters, you'll remember, are the intensity and the duration of a pleasure or pain.
对边沁来说,要记住,真正重要的,是快乐或痛苦的强度和持续时间。
He is using the English translation of the German word frohlich from Nietzsche's The Gay Science.
他用的其实是德语“快乐的“一词的英文翻译,而那个词则来自尼采写的“快乐的科学家“这个标题。
For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
我的那些可能遭受人们讥笑嘲讽的快乐,那些早已被人们遗弃我却为之哭泣的人啊,如今你们都死去了吧,我想说的是那些依然被掩藏的事实,战争中被蒸馏掉的怜悯。
In founding the city, he says, we are not looking to of any one individual or any group but rather to the city as a whole.
在创造城市时,我们不是在找寻,个人或团体的特殊快乐,而是要以城市的整体来看。
He wrote his son in 1704, he said, "I may die tomorrow, but be sure that you have little pleasure if you fail to follow my example.
他在一七零四年写给他的儿子信中说到,"我可能明天就死了,而如果你不能遵循我的的脚步,你是不会快乐的的
It wants pleasure and it wants it now.
本我追求快乐的即时满足。
Are these happy folks singing there?
这是快乐的人在唱歌吗
I want them to say that "there was somebody who lay bare, not just argument vision, The joy that he finds in being human, the joy he finds in sharing, the joy he finds in interacting, the common response, which is descent from black culture.
我想要听他们说:,“他是个揭露自己灵魂的人,而不是大谈道理“,作为人所得到的快乐,在分享和互动中所得到的快乐,从黑人文化中所衍生出来的“共鸣感”
If you've read L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, you know that the image of the great mythological poet Orpheus is always a loaded one for Milton.
如果你们读过《快乐的人》和《沉思的人》,就会知道,伟大的神话诗人俄耳甫斯对弥尔顿来说一直是个沉重的形象。
And you felt great probably for the rest of the senior year-- I mean, still ups and downs; but overall, high levels of happiness.
可能整个高三都会感觉很棒-,当然难免起起落落;,但总是来说是高水平的快乐。
Why is ice cream worth having? Well, ice cream's worth having because when I eat ice cream it gives me this pleasurable sensation. All right.
冰淇淋为什么是值得拥有的?,因为当我吃冰淇淋时,它给我一种快乐的感觉,好的。
And this second week of Harvard is fantastic and it was going to continue just that way, constant tide for the rest of your life.
在哈佛的第二周妙不可言,这种情况将持续下去,余生将是一浪高于一浪的快乐。
If I'm happier, I'm more likely to contribute to other people's happiness and wellbeing.
如果我更快乐,我更有可能,对他人的快乐和幸福作出贡献。
Now I am happier today than I was fifteen years ago when I started. I hope to be happier 15 years from today than I am today.
现在的我比15年前的我更快乐,我希望15年后的我,比今天的我更快乐。
If you are happy, and work on your happiness, you are contributing indirectly to other people's happiness, just like the baby who laughed last time-- made you laugh.
你快乐并努力争取快乐,就是间直接对他人的快乐作出贡献,就像上次大笑的婴儿,把你们逗笑。
The other things were valuable as a means, ultimately to pleasure.
其他种种的可贵在于它们,是达至快乐的手段。
" And-- "How long are you going to stay happy for?"
你们的快乐会持续多久“
We learned other reasons why you are not happy.
我们了解到你们不快乐的其他原因。
Because people feel guilty about pursuing their own happiness.
人们为追求自己的快乐感到内疚。
Bentham arrives at this principle by the following line of reasoning: We're all governed by pain and pleasure, they are our sovereign masters, and so any moral system has to take account of them.
边沁是这样论证这一原则的:,我们都受到痛苦和快乐的支配,苦乐是我们至高无上的主宰,因此任何道德体系都应考虑到它们。
But I hesitantly took two hours to fill that essays and now owe her for or owe that phone call for the best two years of my life and truly the happiest.
但我还是磨蹭了两小时完成短文,多亏那个打来电话的人,这是我人生最美好,最快乐的两年。
what do they have to be unhappy about?
他们有什么可不快乐的?
There's all these pleasures of experiencing art and seeing a beautiful sunset. And I don't know about you, but at least when I imagine the rat lever thing, it's a sort of simple, undifferentiated pleasure.
体验艺术是快乐的,观赏美丽的日落是快乐的,我不了解你们,但当我想象老鼠杠杆时,那是一种简单,单调的快乐。
What about the moral dimension of happiness?
快乐的道德维度呢?
Couldn't it still be the case that as long as we take into account the importance of getting the right kinds of pleasures, then really pleasure is what it's all about and all that it's about? No, I think that's still not right.
它还说得通吗?,当我们考虑,正确的快乐的重要性时,那才是真正的快乐,而且仅为快乐?,不,我认为那还是不对。
If you put the electrode in just the right place, then when the electrode gets turned on, it stimulates the pleasure center in the rat's brain and it gets a little burst of pleasure, a pretty intense burst of pleasure.
只要把电极放对地方,然后启动电极,刺激老鼠大脑的快乐中枢,老鼠感受到一股快感,一股很强烈的快感。
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