President Kennedy once said: "I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,too,will be remembered not for our victories or defeats in battle or politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."

VOA: special.2010.10.29

Our writer for today thinks so highly of that capacity of literature to embody the human voice that he imagines a whole religious world around him.

我们今天的作者高度赞赏文学的容量,能使人的声音具体化，以致他,想象出了一个宗教的世界。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Nevertheless, our knowledge of the earliest stages of human civilization was quite limited for many centuries.

然而，几个世纪以来,我们对人类最早时期文明,的认知是很有限的。

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"Today,as an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

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？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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。

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We are political animals, he says, because participation in the life of the city is necessary for the achievement of human excellence, for the achievement of our well-being.

他说，我们是政治动物，因为参与城市生活,才能达致,人类卓越，也才能达致我们的福祉。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For thinkers like Tocqueville for example regimes are embedded in the deep structures of human history that have determined over long centuries the shape of our political institutions and the way we think about them.

举例来说，对于像托克维尔之类的思想家而言,政体内嵌于人类历史的结构深处,许多世纪以来决定了,我们政治机构的形态,及我们对它们的看法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.

现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。

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