They are amoral, some of them are nicer and better than others But they're not necessarily morally good or righteous.

他们是没有道德原则的，其中一些比另一些和善一点,但他们并没有道德上的美好和正直。

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But I don't have any moral issue with plastic surgery if other people choose to have it.

有的人可能在道德层面上反对整容，不过我没有这种想法。

整容是个人自由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

And this confusion, I think, has everything to do with the fact that this is no ordinary moral that we have in this work of literature.

我认为这种惶惑，是跟一个事实有关的,就是在这部文学作品中没有我们的普通道德。

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Because the difference here is that it's posited not only that this God is the only power but that he is only good. And that was not the case with the metadivine realm. Right? That was morally neutral.

因为区别在于这里的上帝不仅是,唯一的能量来源，他也是唯一的神，这和超神领域,没有任何的联系，以色列的上帝在道德上是中立的。

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Now, we've known for a long time that empathetic feeling is not logically linked to morality.

我们很久以前就知道,移情和道德之间没有逻辑关系。

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I appreciate particularly the idea of human rights, because it is meant to get a round culture, and particularly a round religion, to find those common denominators, hopefully not the lowest denominator that's just ethical washout. It doesn't mean anything.

我尤其赞赏人权的观点，因为它是要构建一个全面的文化，尤其是一个全面完整的宗教，以此来寻求人类共通的地方，希望别是最低层次的共通点,否则只会是道德的失败，没有任何意义。

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Why does an act of consent make such a moral difference, that an act that would be wrong taking a life without consent, is morally permissible with consent?

为什么征得了同意，就能在道德上如此不同呢，没有征得同意就杀人，在道德上是不允许的，征得同意就是允许的吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You have to learn, in other words, how to get your hands dirty. Between the innocence of the Christian and the worldliness of Machiavelli's new morality, there can be no reconciliation.

换句话说，你必须学会如何弄污你的手,在基督教的纯洁观与,马基雅维利新道德中的世俗观之间,没有任何回旋的余地。

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Uh huh. What about it trivializes that crime? I guess it's just that there's no moral lens that we're looking at it through.

嗯，那它把罪行平凡化呢？，我想它只是,它只是没有我们看透的道德伦理。

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He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.

他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务，或者国家事物，因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。

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There's no moral scruple.

完全没有一点道德顾虑。

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The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.

比如那些精神病人,不论是因为大脑受损而造成的,还是先天性的,并没有道德观念,可以帮助我们研究自由和责任的问题,或是研究心理疾病与邪恶的关系或区别

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He makes it clear that utility is the only standard of morality, in his view, so he's not challenging Bentham's premise. He's affirming it.

明确指出功利是道德的唯一标准，在他看来，他并没有质疑边沁的前提，而是肯定此观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

when Steven Spielberg tried to get us to entertain the notion that computers and robots are sentient moral beings he did not show us one that looked like this .

当史蒂芬斯皮尔伯格,想让我们认为,电脑和机器人是有感情有道德的,他没有让我们看到这个。

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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it -- in other words, no outside, no independent standard -- then, that is the more desirable pleasure."

这两种快乐中，如果所有或几乎所有,两种都体验过的人，都更偏好其中一种，而且并不是出于任何道德责任-,换句话说，没有外界的，独立的标准影响-,那么该快乐就是更令人满意的“

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