Okay. That's the end. I want to remind you a final time to look at your Spenser, the cave of Mammon episode, as well as Dr. Johnson's brief comments on Sin and Death.
好,就讲到这,最后一次提醒你们,阅读斯宾塞,贪欲之神的洞窟的故事,还有约翰逊博士对《罪与死亡》的简评。
First of all, they were dying in such numbers; p was so high that it was expensive.
首先,他们死亡的概率如此之大,以至于保费会非常高
Here are two stories not having to do with death per se that may help us get a feel for the oddity of trying to disregard these facts.
下面有两个和死亡本身无关的故事,可能会让我们感觉到,试图无视这些事实的奇怪之处。
He's obsessed with grief over Enkidu, and he's obsessed with the whole issue of mortality. He begins a quest for immortality, and that takes up most of the rest of the epic.
他无法从Enkidu之死的悲痛中挣脱出来,他开始了对死亡这个命题的追寻,这部书余下的部分,都是关于这点的描写。
But they're being flashed so fast you don't see anything-- words like "corpse," "dead," "dying."
它们闪现的速度非常之快,你根本看不到这些词语,it,looks,like,that—,比如,尸体,死亡,垂死“
They are people that you--the community--trusts, that people are willing to let into their home and discuss things like death; that was an innovation that came in then.
他们在社区中享有威望,人们希望他们进入自己家中,并愿意与之讨论一些不快的话题,如死亡,这个创新从那以后就流行了起来
So even if it were true that belief requires picturing, and even if were true that you can't picture being dead from the inside, it wouldn't follow that you can't believe you're going to die.
所以即便不能相信无法想象之物这一说法,是真实的,人无法从内部想象死亡的感觉,也不代表不能相信自己会死亡这事实。
Crucial point, of course, the attraction of the dualist view, from our point of view, is that if there's a soul as well as the body, and the soul is something immaterial, then when the body dies, when we have B1 through Bn and the death of the body occurs.
当然,至关重要的一点,二元论观点的引人之处在于,就我们而言,如果肉体与灵魂同时存在,而且如果灵魂是非物质,那么当肉体死亡的时候,就像之前的B1到Bn的过程,直到肉体死亡
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