One answer is there are times in your life where half a second can matter a lot.
第一个答案是,在你生命在有很多时候,半秒钟能产生巨大的影响。
Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.
即使是那些我们以通俗的眼光看来没有生命的物体,-即使是它们也有一种潜质,一种生命的潜质,似乎被注入了神灵。
Remember we were talking about beat, which is the regular pulse, the pulse of life, the pulse of music, that comes at regular intervals.
我们讲到了节拍,节拍是一种有规律的律动,就像生命的律动一样,这是音乐的律动,节拍表现为有规律的间隔
One thing, maybe not the only thing, but at least one thing, that goes into a life worth having is enjoying it, is pleasure.
有一样东西也许不是唯一但有一样东西,在生命中是值得拥有的,就是享受,就是快乐。
The Hobbesian state was intended to secure the conditions of life, even a highly civilized and cultivated life but one calculated in terms of self-interest and risk avoidance.
霍布斯眼中的国家旨在,保护人民的生命财产安全,即使是那些虽开化有教养却是为一己私利的人,也应当受到国家的保护。
They believed in the gods,they were religious people, but the core of their lives was shaped by human things in a way different from what was true of the Hebrews and the Christians later on, that is a Divine view.
他们信神灵,他们是有宗教信仰的,但他们生命意义的核心却是以人为本的,这和《希伯来书》中所写的截然不同,和稍后的基督教教义也有差异,那些是人权神授的观念
If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."
如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论,有些人可能会说,“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”
And, lastly, this is Democritus that the being is made of particles that are eternal.
最后,这是Democritus认为,生命是有永恒的粒子组成的。
We might think of it as, the overall shape of your life matters.
我们可以把它阐述为,生命的整体形状是有关系的。
We started with the idea you needed to appeal to souls in order to roughly explain why human bodies move, why we're animated or why we move in nonrandom ways.
一开始,我们诉诸于灵魂这样一个概念,是为了解释,为何人类的肉体能移动,为何我们有生命力,为何我们能够非随机性的运动
A plant is a living thing.
一株植物是一个有生命力的实体
Now, in stating this view this way, I'm obviously presupposing that we can make these kinds of, at least, overall judgments in terms of the quality of your life, how well off you are.
经过这样审视这个观点,显然我是事先假设了我们能够做出,起码是对生命质量,做出一般性的判断,你有多幸福。
When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.
柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事,他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式,这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。
There's something wrong about lives, something inauthentic about lives that are lived without facing the facts of our mortality and living accordingly, whatever the appropriate responses might be.
那种生活是有问题的,不去面对我们终有一死的事实,并相应地生活的生命是不真实的,不管合适的反应可能是什么。
It just lies there; whereas your body, my body is animated.
只是躺在那里,而你我的肉体都是有生命的
There's a short story by the science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, where the basic point of the story is that of all the life forms in the universe, we, here on Earth, are the only ones that are mortal.
科幻作家Orson,Scott,Card写了一个短故事,该故事的主旨是,在宇宙的所有生命形式中,我们,在地球上是唯一终有一死的生命。
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