"I think in Japan there was a collective identity as a society where everyone is middle class, everybody shares the same fate, there are not huge, wide disparities of income.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

And what I recognized was first of all, how impoverishing that was spiritually to not be able to bring my faith identity into the public square.

而我意识到,第一，我们精神上很枯竭,因为我们不能将自己的宗教身份,带入公共场所。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

That follows then that this intuition suggests that what I find intuitively plausible is the personality theory of personal identity.

也就是说这个直觉暗示的是,我认为人格理论在直觉上是合理的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

"That's how I see writing." "It's not so much that it makes your identity, but that it helps you see it, and it helps you be able to define it better and understand it better.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

I think assertions of national identity and independence are often predicated on differentiation from others.

我想对国家身份和独立的断言,基础常常是与他者的区分。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So how do you feel call to this, but how did you like to say, I remember when I told my parents I was going to seminary, So I think there is a similar identity.

你对于做教士这件事是怎么想的，你当时是怎样想到，我记得当时对父母说我要去神学院时，所以我们的这种经历是类似的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But, one of the things I'm interested in is national identity, in fact because we kind of have complex attitudes toward our own identity I suppose, me and my family.

不过有一个我感兴趣的就是国家身份,其实因为我们对于自己身份,的看法比较复杂,我和我的家庭

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

I mentioned earlier that it's Virginia Woolf who's largely responsible for our sense of Milton's identity as an oppressive patriarchal literary voice, but Virginia Woolf, too, had inherited these contradictory ways of thinking about Milton and about Milton's power.

我先前提到过，我们之所以会,把弥尔顿看作是男权主义在文学领域的发言人,在很大程度上是由于佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫，但佛吉尼亚也继承了这互相矛盾的,思考弥尔顿及其力量的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If I were to discover that's what was happening metaphysically and the soul view was the true theory of personal identity, I'd say,Huh!

如果这就是形而上学地发生的事情,而且灵魂观点是个人认同感的正确理论，我会说！

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well--since I myself don't believe in souls, it's hard to surprise you to learn that I don't think the soul theory of personal identity is right.

因为我本身不相信灵魂的存在，所以你们肯定能想到,我认为人格同一性的灵魂论,不是正确的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I'm inclined to think that the key to personal identity is having the same body, as long as there's no branching,as long as there's no splitting.

我倾向于觉得个人认同感取决于同样的身体，前提是没有分支和分裂。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So even if the body theory of personal identity is the right theory, what I want to say in response to that is,So what?

即便身体理论对个人认同感的解释是正确的，我的反应还是，那又怎样？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Bare survival of my soul,even though that is the key to personal identity-- if it is--bare survival of my soul doesn't give me what I want.

仅有我灵魂的存活，即便是个人认同感的关键-,也并没有给予我，我想要的任何东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's no comfort to me to be told I will survive,because after all, the soul is the key to personal identity,if there's no similar personality, no memories,no beliefs,no retrievable memories of past lives.

能这样存活下去对我来说毫无安慰，因为说到底，灵魂是个人认同感的关键，而如果没有与前世相似的人格，记忆和信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The soul theory, key to personal identity is same soul; the body theory, key to personal identity is same body; while the best version I think is the brain version of the body theory.

灵魂论，人格同一性的关键在于,同样的灵魂，肉体论,人格同一性的关键在于同样的肉体;,还有我觉得最好的版本,肉体论下的大脑论版本。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

But of course, as we know and thinking about familiar objects, we don't need to have every single piece of an object, of an identity stay the same to have the same feeling.So-- I think previously I talked about the steering wheel on my car.

但很明显的,根据我们的常识，我们不需要要求,所有的物体，都保持不变,从而得到同一个肉体-,我记得我之前讨论过,我的汽车的方向盘。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选