You get clear about the kinds of questions we've just been asking about the badness of death, whatever that is.

你弄明白我们所问的关于死亡的坏处的,这类问题，不管是什么。

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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。

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We spent the first half of the semester,you might say, trying to get clear about the metaphysical facts.

我们将前半学期花在，试着弄清楚那些形而上学的事实。

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Once we get clear about what the relevant metaphysical glue is, we'll be in a position to start asking: Could this happen or not?

一旦我们知道了,形而上粘质是什么，我们就会问：,这会发生吗？

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That's the mistake that is important for us to get clear about.

这就错了,这是个我们要避免的错误。

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Still, in trying to get clear about the nature of wellbeing, the crucial thing to do is to focus not on the question about instrumental value, but rather to focus on the question of intrinsic value.

想搞清楚幸福的本质，至关重要的不是专注于,利用价值的问题，而是应专注于固有价值的问题。

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Now as I say, I believe that when push comes to shove, we do need to get clear about both of those questions and so that's going to take the first several weeks of the class.

如果想深入了解这个话题,就必须弄清楚这两个问题,这就是头几周课的主要内容

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If we could get clear about what the answer to that metaphysical question the key to personal identity we'd at least know what we needed to find out to answer the question: ? Is this one person or two?

如果我们能知道,那个形而上问题的答案,对于人格同一性的关键,至少我们会知道,我们要知道什么来得出答案：,是同一个人还是两个人？

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Now, the most natural thing to suggest would be, well, you get clear on your favorite theory about the value of life, whatever that is.

现在，提出的最自然的事情就是，你弄明白你最喜欢的,有关生命价值的理论，不管是什么。

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And what we now see is that-- to see whether that could be the case or not, we've got to get clear in our own minds about whether we believe in a neutral container theory, ... a positive, valuable container theory or-- and among those, between a fantastic and a modest container theory.

现在我们可以看到-,情况是不是这样，我们就要想清楚,我们相信的是中性容器理论，是积极的有价值容器理论还是-,有价值容器理论中的，理想容器理论或保守容器理论。

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So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

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