and a number of things that are just, sort of, difficult for human beings to process and make intelligent decisions.
还有一系列,人们难以去控制,并且做出正确决定的事情。
Now, that on the one hand is this extraordinary claim that the Greeks make. They did make amazingly powerful claims for human beings as opposed to divinity, compared to any society that I know anything about.
一方面 希腊人有这样如此不同寻常的主张,和我所了解到的其他任何社会相比,他们的确为人类做了很多强有力的辩护,以对抗神明
The kind of discipline and self-restraint necessary for an educated mind appears, for him, to be unequally divided among human beings.
那种受过教育者,所必备的纪律与自制,对他而言似乎是不平等地,区隔了人群。
The cave of Mammon is the home of Mammon, the money god, who stores in his cave all of the wealth and all of the honor that human beings spend so much energy striving for.
贪欲之神的洞穴是他的住所,这位掌管钱财的神在他的洞里藏着,人类耗费大量精力想要求得的,所有财富和荣誉。
It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.
它没有具体的形态,这意味着,人类,也只有人类,可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。
What he suggested is "Manhattan-Project-type attacks upon what I consider to be the truly Big Problems of our time, not only for psychology but for all human beings " with any sense of historical urgency".
他表明“曼哈顿计划“反驳了,当时最大的问题,这不仅是对心理学,甚至对所有人类都,带来了历史紧迫感。
And by that I mean a Burkean conservatism, a set of beliefs that says the world is ordered as it is, for reasons, and that human beings ought not tinker with that order, very much.
这里我指的是一种保守主义,相信这世界是始终按照秩序,运转的一套信仰,因此,人类 无论如何不能去僭越规则
After all, even these heroes need communities in which to live for all the various purposes that human beings do.
毕竟,即使是这些英雄,也需要在市井中生活,像普通人一样为各种目的劳碌奔波
For Aristotle, human beings have a goal or a telos, which is to live a life in community with others for the sake of human flourishing.
亚里士多德认为,人类是有目的的,这个目的就是,与他人住在一起,最终达到人类的生生不息。
And what does that imply for ? our obligations as human beings and citizens?
那对于我们身为人类,或公民的义务又意味着什么?
The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.
接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人,他们是上帝的奴隶,上帝与他们没有共同利益,也并不关心他们,他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。
To me that seems an accurate description of the human condition that is meaningful, not only for the Greeks and their heirs in the West, but for all human beings.
在我看来,这些对于人类情况的描述是,准确而意味深长的,不仅对希腊人和西方人,而是全人类
And the drama of human life should revolve not around the search for eternal life but around the moral conflict and tension between a good god's design for creation and the free will of human beings that can corrupt that good design.
而关于人类生命的戏剧,不应该围绕于对永生的追寻,而是道德的冲突和紧张状态,在上帝创造的美好,和人类能腐蚀这种美好创造的自由意志间的冲突。
We are beings for whom the exercise of the will is a preeminent feature and much of our happiness as human beings depends upon our capacity to exercise our will and our ability for choice.
作为人,意愿的运用是,一种卓越的特性,我们作为人大多数的幸福感,取决于我们运用,意愿和能力来选择。
Doesn't Aristotle call man the rational animal, the being with logos, suggesting that all human beings have a desire for knowledge and the desire to cultivate their minds and live as free persons.
亚里士多德不是称人类为理性的动物吗,具有,Logos,的生物,并暗示所有的人类,都有求知欲,且想要陶冶他的身心,并过自由的生活。
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