The great thing about classicism for Gadamer, or what he calls "tradition," is that it's something we can share.
对于伽达默尔来说古典主义,或者传统,最伟大之处是这是我们可以分享的。
And in that class, we study great works of western philosophy, like going back as far as Plato through Aristotle,
在这门课上,我们学习西方哲学的伟大作品,比如说通过亚里士多德讲到年代久远的柏拉图,
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。
Hardy, arguably the greatest English poet, modern English poet, is a figure we don't study in this course otherwise.
哈迪,可以说是最伟大的英国诗人,现代英国诗人,然而我们不会在这门课中学习他。
The great philosophers had arguments that they were putting forward to try to persuade us of the truths of their positions.
这些伟大的哲学家们做出了论证,来使我们相信,他们观点的正确性
We are sitting here, looking at a great visual portrayal of the Myth of the Birth of Venus.
现在我们坐在这,看着这伟大的人物油画--《维纳斯的诞生》
That's a question for you: is it the greatest love story of our time?
我问你们,这是我们时代最伟大的爱情故事吗?
And if we have high expectations, if we see the seed of greatness in the students, that seed of greatness is more likely to flourish.
如果我们有很高的期望,如果我们在学生身上看到伟大的潜能,那么这种潜能就更可能被激发。
Think of it. Think of many of our great political models or heroes.
思考一下,思考一下我们诸多伟大的政治模范与英雄。
But like, someone has to tell us that Shakespeare was this great writer.
但必须有人教导我们,莎士比亚是位伟大的作家。
Students would see my light on in my office and say, "Oh that's great Master Brownell, you stayed up all night just like we did working," but of course we were on different schedules.
学生看到我办公室的灯亮着就说,"伟大的布朗奈尔院长,你也和我们一样通宵工作呀",但显然,我们的作息表不一样
Well, the next lines in Homer say that one soldier popped up and said, "Of all the great things Odysseus has done for us here, that was greatest, to shut up a big mouth idiot like Thersites."
书中接着写道,一名士兵站了出来,他说,"在奥德修斯为我们做的一切伟大事迹中,其中最了不起的,就是让忒尔西忒斯这样多嘴的白痴闭上嘴
Sometimes we refer to them as "great books"-- in other words, the sort of text that speaks, or we feel as though it's speaking, to all places and times.
有时我们把这些称作为“伟大的书“,也就是说,在各个时空都有影响力的那些作品。
We get great Mahler symphonies yet we have everybody sitting there rock-still at these concerts.
我们拥有伟大的马勒交响曲的同时,也要求大家在音乐会上要坐得像块石头
Even such concepts, such great American concepts let's call it that--as self-reliance about which Ralph Waldo Emerson may have written his greatest essay I go read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" at least once a year.
这样的观念,伟大的美国式的观念,让我们称呼它为,自助,这是拉尔夫·华尔多·爱默生写过的,最具影响力的作品,我每年至少读一次爱默生的《自助》
And one of the things I pointed out is that the people in our history, who have been the most humble, have been our Generals and our Presidents, and until this one who fought wars.
有一点我想指出的是,纵观美国历史,最为谦逊的,都是我们伟大的将军和总统们,直到现在这个好战的。
That the borders of our minds are shifting, and that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
实际上这是指我们的想象力],我们心灵的边界一直变化,我们的记忆是一个伟大的,自然的记忆的一部分。
I suggest that we can hear echoes of that same youthful competitiveness in Milton's first major poem in these opening lines, in the beginning of the great epic of Milton's maturity.
在失乐园的开头几句,在弥尔顿成熟后所写的这首伟大史诗的开头,我们还可以看到这同样的他年轻时的雄心。
His first book was a translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, which he completed in 1629; Thucydides, the great historian of the Peloponnesian War, who we mentioned before when we talked about Plato.
他第一本书是对',修昔底斯《伯罗奔尼撒战争》的译著,这本书于1629年完成;,修昔底斯,伯罗奔尼撒战争中伟大的历史学家,这个人在我们之前讨论柏拉图时提到过。
We the great gazebo built.
我们建筑了伟大的楼台。
We the great gazebo built."
我们建筑了伟大的楼台“
And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.
所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话
The study of political philosophy often begins as this course will do also with the study of the great books or some of the great books of our field.
政治哲学研究的开始,就像这门课的作法,常起始于研究一些伟大的巨著,或是一些我们研究领域内的巨著。
We can anatomize some of the forms of power that have been most commonly attributed to this greatest English poet.
我们可以剖析一下这种种,大家通常认为这伟大的英国诗人所具有的力量。
Hobbes is the, again, the great founder of what we might call, among others, is the experimental method in social and political science.
霍布斯是伟大的奠基者,是我们所说的,在科学和政治科学的实验方法上的奠基者。
Ok, so we have this grand scheme, grand idea by Maslow to create a Manhattan-type Project.
我们有了这样一个伟大的计划,有了Maslow创造类似曼哈顿计划的伟大想法。
Perhaps we want to write like Shakespeare, maybe we want to be a writer like the great Old Testament prophet Isaiah. But the last thing we should be burdened with, Milton's suggesting here, is the fear of being late.
也许我们想向莎士比亚一样,也许想成为,伟大的旧约先知以赛亚,但弥尔顿说我们最不应该被,担心迟到所困。
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。
Yet other voices within the tradition--Plato Machiavelli Rousseau come to mind -believed that regimes can be self-consciously founded through deliberate acts of great statesmen or founding fathers as we might call them.
但传统中的其它声音,像柏拉图,马奇亚维利,鲁索却相信,政体可以透过自我意识建立,藉由伟大政治家的谨慎举动,我们也称这些人为国父。
So I'm going to leave it on that note and on Wednesday we will begin the study of one of Machiavelli's greatest and most profound disciples in the modern world, a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes.
那么我就到此为止了,星期三的时候,我们将开始研讨现代社会中,马基雅维利的一位伟大而见解深刻的门徒,他的名字叫做托马斯霍布斯。
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