And as a starting point there's a lovely quote from the psychologist and philosopher William James that I want to begin with.

作为开始,有一个可爱的引言,是心理学家和哲学家,威廉，詹姆斯说的,我想用它做开始。

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Well, now as you will hear on several occasions over the course of the semester, I'm a philosopher.

你们将会多次在这门课上,听到我这些话,我是一个哲学家

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as presenting the most intransigent case for the philosopher as a radical critic or questioner of society.

刻划成哲学家中,极端不妥协派的例子,像是社会中的激进评论者或提问者。

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An alternative, though, is that there's separate modules, and this is a view developed, again, by Noam Chomsky, and also by the philosopher of mind Jerry Fodor, who claimed that the whole idea of a child developing as a single story is mistaken.

而另一种观点则认为是存在独立模块的,这个观点还是诺姆·乔姆斯基提出的,心灵哲学家杰瑞·福多尔,也同样提出过类似观点,这个观点认为,将儿童发展单独看待的整个观念,都是错误的

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Let me say, I am by no means convinced that the idea for the philosopher-king is an impossibility or is intended as a kind of absurdity.

我要声明，我决不采信,哲学家国王概念,不可能的说法,或说那是种荒谬的说法。

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As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

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Machiavelli's prophetic prince, in other words, must have some of the qualities of a philosopher, as well as a religious reformer trying to reshape and remold human opinion, especially opinion over, as we said, good and evil, just and unjust.

马奇亚维利的先知型君王，换句话说，必需多少拥有,哲学家与宗教改革者的特质,想尝试改造及重塑人们的看法，特别是对善恶，正义与不公的看法。

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