It's from that story we have the idea that mankind is responsible or has dominion over the animals and the earth.

从这个故事中，我们感到,人类是重要的，人类统领着,其他动物和整个地球。

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And then I started to say, I'm studying ethics, what are the ethics have we treat the animals.

我对自己说，我是学伦理学的，我们对待动物的时候有什么伦理道德呢？

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Like animals, we possess physical material bodies, but unlike animals, what we are is not physical.

我们和动物一样拥有有形的生理客体,但与动物不同,我们的本质却并非是生理的

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We are political animals, he says, because participation in the life of the city is necessary for the achievement of human excellence, for the achievement of our well-being.

他说，我们是政治动物，因为参与城市生活,才能达致,人类卓越，也才能达致我们的福祉。

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I just happened, while I was a graduate student at Oxford University, to meet somebody who is vegetarian and start talking to him about the way we treat animals which I really didn't know much about.

那时我还在牛津攻读硕士研究生,偶然遇到了一个素食者,我们聊到人类是怎样对待动物的,当时我的确不是很了解。

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But in the real world when dealing with humans, but even when dealing with animals, we don't actually always use primary reinforcers or negative reinforcers.

但当我们在现实中训练人类，甚至是训练动物时，我们实际上并不总是用到初级强化物,或是负强化物。

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And so, that simple fact is why we would expect animals to care for their children, because children are the means through which genes replicate.

所以，简单的事实是,我们为什么期待动物关心后代，因为后代是基因繁衍的方式。

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They would say, we are rational or autonomous and they are not.

他们可能会说，我们是理性的，是自主的,动物可不是这样。

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All he tells us is that we are the polis animal by nature and that to achieve our ends, it will be necessary to live in a polis.

他只说到,我们是天生的城邦动物,为了达成目标，必需要住在城邦之中。

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And others would saying in addition to the traditional ideas of keeping these Jewish dietary laws involved, we should add an understanding based on the needs of the planet and the suffering of the animals that are potentially involved with our food resources.

另一些人可能会建议，除了,保持传统的,犹太饮食教规，我们应当理解,地球的需求和动物的痛苦,而这些都是与我们的食物来源有关系的。

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What does that mean--we are the political animal.

但，“我们都是政治动物“意谓着什么。

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Aristotle's political science presupposes in other words a certain conception of human beings as linguistic animals who are capable not only of living together -so do a range of other species -but rather sharing in the arrangements of rule.

亚里士多德的政治科学,预设一种特定的概念,即人类是能言语的动物,我们不只能生活在一起,像其它很多动物一般,还能共享规范的安排。

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