Now, let me take a sidebar for about five minutes to talk about course administration, the administrivia things that we're going to do in the course, just so you know what the rules are.
现在,让我用大约五分钟的边角料时间,来说说本门课的基本信息,也就是我们需要在课上做的事儿,好让你们了解一下规则。
Now, it's interesting because the other four books of the Pentateuch never mention a king. In Genesis through Numbers none of the legal materials say when you have a king this is what he shall do.
有趣的是,摩西五经中的其他四本经书,从来没有提到过国王,从《创世纪》到《民数记》,从没有一份正规的材料说,当你有了一位国王后,这些就是他应该做的事情。
So why I didn't necessarily say to myself "These people are just wrong!", I discovered there were many things about other communities and cultures that I just didn't know.
我并没有对自己说,“这些人肯本就是错了!“,相反,我发现了许多,我原先根本不知道的,有关别的社区和文化背景的事情。
A guy called Chip Sowerwine, Charles Sowerwine, who's a buddy of mine from--lives in Melbourne, in Australia, and it's a good book.
是一个叫"碎屑"索维温,就是查尔斯·索维温,我一哥们,住在墨尔本,澳大利亚,是本好书
The explicit mandate of positive psychology as well as of this class is to create a bridge between Ivory tower and mainstreet.
积极心理学及本课程的宗旨非常明确,就是要在象牙塔及大众间构建桥梁。
Now, I want to move to the third theme of this lecture, which is invention.
现在,我将转向本课的第三个主题,那就是发明。
The whole telling of the story is not objective at all, and when you think of it in an objective sort of way, it's a completely different story.
整个故事的讲述本就不客观,当你用客观的方法去衡量它时,它就是完全不同的故事了。
Because what you don't see in this file is any code a that actually says put a letter of the alphabet at the top left hand corner of the screen and then put the next character to the right in other words, I'm taking for granted at this moment in time that my computer knows how to print something to the screen.
就是这些你在本文件中看不到的一些代码,实现了将首字母,放在屏幕的左上角,然后把其他字母加在其右边,我想当然地认为,我的电脑知道如何打印相应信息到屏幕上。
But there's one in particular that you just have to listen too, and it was the interview with Michael Pollan, the author of the book that's for the class.
但还有一个你们不能错过的播客,就是对麦克尔·波兰的访谈,他是本课教材的作者
And that's, according to Freud, how a human begins, pure id.
根据弗洛伊德的理论,刚出生的婴儿就是这个样子,也就是说婴儿只有本我。
So that's basically the semester.
这差不多就是本学期的内容。
The remainder of the Republic is, again, devoted to crafting the regime that will produce a distinctive kind of human character, and that of course is why the book is a utopia.
理想国》的往后章节,是全面致力于刻划能催化,独特人类性格的政体,那也当然就是为何此书是本乌托邦。
The extraordinary thing that Freud remark -- as he studies dreams in this book--published in 1905, by the way-- the extraordinary thing about the way in which dreams work is that there seems to be a kind of coexistence or simultaneity of these effects.
弗洛伊德那本,研究梦境的书--就是1905年出版的那一本-,对于梦运作的发现中不同寻常的一点,就在于他认为“凝缩“和“移置“,的现象同时存在。
Convention, OK, this negative sign is just a pure convention. You just got to use it all the time. If you use an old textbook, written when I was taking thermodynamics, they have the opposite convention, and it's very confusing. But now we've all agreed on this convention, and work is going to be with the negative sign here.
系统对外界做功的符号为负,这就是我们,在本课中的规定,纯粹出于统一符号的需要,有些教科书中,可能会使用相反的符号规定,注意不要混淆了,这门课上,我们将一直使用。
This is what this class is mostly about.
这些就是本课程的主要内容。
There's another argument descartes could have made that's a lot less subtle than the ones he did make, which is "That thing responsible for free will and love and consciousness?
笛卡尔本可以指出一个,比他所举论据,更为巧妙的论据,也就是,"这东西会是引起自由意志,爱恋,与意识的原因吗
So it was a theme of the period and Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle contributes to this theme. Brooks himself likes to -- refer to the text of Beyond the Pleasure Principle as itself a master plot-- in other words as having a certain fictive character.
所以不难发现,这就是弗洛伊德时期的一大主题,而那本《超越快乐原则》也就响应了这个主题,布鲁克斯,本人很喜欢引用《超越快乐原则》中的片段-,换句话说,就好像有一个虚构的角色。
This class is what I think education is all about, which is that the quest for information and transformation must begin with the question.
本课程就是我认为的教育的宗旨,也就是对信息和转变的探索,必须由一个问题开始。
Starting at the beginning of the third week of class that is not next week but the week after on each Monday I'm going to put up a brief question or set of questions, which you have to answer and your answers need to be sent to your teaching fellow.
本课程将于开学后三周开课,也就是自下下周开始,每周一上课,我会提出一系列问题,要同学们思考并回答,大家的答案要在周五前交给研究生助教
And this is what this class is about.
这就是本课程要做的。
This is what the class is about.
这就是本课程所要讲的。
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