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And I hope those values will be ones that include trying to make your life into something that improves the world for others as well.
我希望这些价值观,能够让你的生活方式,改善世界上其他的人的生活。
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it's in thinking critically and applying the ideas that you get from reading that... really make it valuable.
学习文学能锻炼我们的批判性思维，我们还能将文学中体现的思想应用到现实生活中。这才是文学的价值所在。
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I'm not clear that that kind of knowledge gives a whole lot of value to your life.
我不是很确定,这种知识会给你的生活带来多少价值。
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And we need to ask in the case of higher or worthier pleasures are there theories of the good life that can provide independent moral standards for the worth of pleasures?
我们要问，就更高的或更有价值的快乐而言,是否存在“良善生活“的理论,能为快乐的价值,提供独立的道德标准？
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Perhaps only those of you who might come from a small town in the south or from certain areas of Brooklyn would understand something about the supreme value of piety as a way of life.
也许只有那些,来自南方小镇,或布鲁克林部份地区的人,才能了解,生活方式中,敬神的至高价值。
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My advice for our young philosopher, or for any young students is to think about the kind of life you want to live and how it can advance the values that are most important to you.
我建议这些年轻的哲学家们，也建议所有的大学生,来思考一下你真正希望的生活,想一想这种生活将如何深化,对你来说最重要的价值观。
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Perhaps you ought to reexamine your religious values to see if they meet your needs in life. A religious experience can be a beautiful addition to living, if you put it in the proper perspective and do not let it-- I think it's "warp," "warp you."] Read some books on ethical culture."
你或许该重新审视自己的宗教价值观来判断,他们是否符合你生活中的需要，宗教经历可以成为,生活中美好的额外事物，如果你从一种适当的角度,不让它，我认为此处是印刷错误，你们看到一个warf的词了吗？,我认为是歪曲，歪曲你的想法，多读一些民族文化的书籍“
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For simplicity I'll talk about these views as though they say life per se is valuable.
因为我会简单地把这些观点描述成,生活本身是有价值的。
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And deciding how valuable it is, how good it is for me to be alive is a matter of adding up the value of the contents of the life.
它的价值，以及我活着的好处,取决于生活内容的价值总和。
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Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.
因为如果你是个保守者，如果你接受保守价值容器理论，那么如果生活内容极为糟糕，它便超越了活着的正数。
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.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.
生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。
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It's as though being alive is infinitely valuable in comparison to questions about the contents.
活着似乎有着无限的价值,如果和生活内容相比的话。
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Life may have value in and of itself, but it's not mere life.
生活本身也许有价值，但却不是随便哪种生活。
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Against that, you can imagine someone who thinks being alive per se is so incredibly valuable that no matter how horrible the contents are, the grand total will always be positive.
与之相反，你可以想象有些人会认为,活着本身有着巨大的价值,不管生活内容有多糟糕，总和都会是正数。
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Whether it gets outweighed easily, or whether it's very, very difficult and the contents have to be horrible to outweigh it, depends on how much value you think being alive per se has.
不管是轻易被超越，还是它很困难被超越,还是生活内容要非常糟糕才能超越它，这取决于你认为生活本身有多少价值。
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So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.
所以这差不多就是人的生活，当说到，当人们说到，活着本身是有价值的，我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。
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We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.
我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。
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