At the age of eighty, she said this about her career: "My identity is very clear to me now.
VOA: special.2010.05.23
So first I'm gonna say something about identity across time or indeed initially identity across space with some familiar humdrum material objects.
所以我首先要,用一些大家熟悉的一般实物,谈谈贯穿时间,和贯穿空间中的人格。
Next time let's talk about identity, and let's talk about one of my favorite topics, the role of the schools in towns and in villages.
下次我们要讲同一性,要讲我最喜欢的一个话题,城镇和农村的学校所扮演的角色
In a sense,it gives Muslims a sense of social identity and it is embraced by just about everyone.
VOA: standard.2010.08.05
Because when we've thought about the first case, the intuition seemed to be, ah,personality's the key to personal identity.
因为当我们思考案例一,得到的直觉似乎是,人格是个人认同感的关键。
The first identity cards are expected to be issued in about 18 months.
VOA: standard.2009.09.24
These ornate masquerades and charades that are part of his complexity reveal something about his identity.
这些华丽的化装舞会和猜谜游戏,揭露了他复杂个性中的一部分
That has set off intense speculation here about the identity of the intended victim with published reports mentioning high-profile Congress Party politician Rahul Gandhi, whose father and grandmother, both prime ministers, were assassinated.
VOA: standard.2009.10.30
Our dualism shows up in intuitions about personal identity.
二元论揭示了直觉上的人格同一性
Mohammed Said Idries, of the Al Ahram Center for Strategic Studies, says that there are many reasons why the electoral law remains stalled in the Iraqi parliament, but that the quarrel about the identity Kirkuk is one key stumbling block.
VOA: standard.2009.10.26
We can't answer that question until we are clearer about what does it take to have identity across time.
我们无法回答那个问题,除非我们知道,人格要穿越时间需要什么条件。
So identity, national identity is very complex, and we talk about the war--this is, it's a sparkling account.
所以说身份,国家身份在当时很复杂,然后我们谈起这场战争,这是一个很有话题的事
So body is the key to personal identity, we don't have to worry about the fact that we are constantly gaining and losing items.
因此肉体是人格同一性的关键,不必担心,肉体不停地新增或失去什么微粒。
And particular, how should we run that if we think about the body as the key ? to personal identity?
特别是,当我们认为肉体是,人格同一性的关键时,对此我们又如何解释?
But when we thought about the second case, the intuition seems to be, body is the key to personal identity.
但当思考案例二时,得到的直觉似乎是,肉体是个人认同感的关键。
And then we're going to spend several weeks, or at least a week or so, talking about the nature of personal identity.
然后再用几周时间,至少一周,讨论个人同一性的问题
So, for example, we'll spend whatever it is, maybe a week and a half talking about the nature of personal identity, two weeks.
所以,举个例子来说,我们无论花什么,也许一个半星期会谈论,个人身份的本质,二个星期。
Although I'm inclined to think that the body theory may be the best view about what's the key to personal identity, I'm also inclined to think it doesn't really matter.
虽然我倾向于觉得身体理论,也许是解释个人认同感的关键观点,我同样觉得,这其实根本无关紧要。
To use some philosophical jargon, the nature of identity seems like it should depend only on intrinsic facts about me or perhaps relational facts about the relations between my stages.
用哲学术语来说,身份的本质似乎应该只取决于关于我的内在事实,或是关于我在两个时期关系的事实。
let's turn now to the case we really wonder about personal identity.
现在我们说真正讨论的问题,人格同一性。
So I'm gonna spend some time talking about examples that I think we would not find puzzling and walk our way back up to the case of personal identity.
我将会花点时间讲解,举一些大家不会感到疑惑的例子,不要让大家重新掉入,人格同一性的问题。
These are questions about the nature of personal identity.
这些问题是关于个人身份本质的。
rival theories about the key to personal identity.
关于人格同一性的,3个理论。
But since we are only looking at enough of the problem of identity to get to the question that we really want to think about, the nature of personal identity across time, I'm not going to pursue that.
但由于我们只是,通过质的问题,来讨论,我们真正关注的问题,也就是贯穿时间的人格同一性,所以我不讨论那些。
and they reply in German, "Yes, I'm French," that doesn't--language doesn't necessarily tell you how people feel about their identity. Some sage once said, I don't know who it was, but I love this expression, that a language is a dialect with a powerful army.
然后他们用德语回答,"我是法国人",不一定--语言不一定能代表,对自己的身份认同,有个哲人说过,我忘了是谁,但我特喜欢这句,说语言就是有强大军队撑腰的方言
Pretty clearly, to think about death and continued existence and survival, we have to get clear about the nature of personal identity.
很清楚,要想思考死亡,和继续存在并且活着,我们不得不弄清楚个人身份的本质。
You just have to ask yourself could this really be what ? personal identity is all about?
你只要问问自己,这有可能是,人格同一性吗?
After all, go back to the lock-in warriors about the soul theory of personal identity.
回顾我们讨论人格同一性的灵魂论,提到的关于战士的案例。
Now,think about the implications of this second case for the theory of personal identity.
现在来思考一下案例二,关于个人认同感理论的暗示。
To think about which one of these is the key to personal identity, we need to think about the cases maybe somewhat fantastical science fictioning in which they come apart.
想要思考哪一个,才是人格同一性的关键,就必须构思一些更奇妙的案例,得用科学幻想把这些理论独立开。
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