Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.
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Like the moon, Satan may look beautiful, but upon a closer scrutiny that beauty begins to yield certain metaphysical flaws.
像月亮那样,撒旦看起来非常美好,但是近看,就会发现这份美丽开始显露出一些抽象的瑕疵。
Evil is a metaphysical reality. It is built into the structure of the universe. That's the way the universe was made.
邪恶是一种超自然的存在,它是宇宙构造的组成部分,宇宙就是这样的。
Why this struggle, and why must Milton struggle with such awkward metaphysical categories in order simply to address properly the power of light?
为什么弥尔顿必须,与这样一个奇怪的抽象的东西斗争,仅仅是为了恰当的描述光明的力量?
And some metaphysical views you might say just exactly like what the train the car stages are the metaphysically fundamental things.
从另外的形而上学角度,你可能会认为跟火车一样,汽车的阶段,就是形而上学来说基本的东西。
It vaults that discussion into a much larger, metaphysical, transcendent context, the whole order of the universe.
也将这个讨论深入到了一个,更加广大,形而上的,超越上下文的全宇宙秩序的范畴。
I was particularly interested in metaphysical poetry political philosophy -- I wrote my thesis on a radical political philosopher of the 17th century of the civil war period.
我尤其感兴趣的是玄学诗派,和政治哲学,我的毕业论文,就是有关一名激进的政治哲学家,他生活在内战的十八世纪。
It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.
这不一定是按时间顺序排列的,但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是,一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力,起源,思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。
I'm not quite sure,because we have to turn to a metaphysical question that we've touched upon before,namely,can souls split?
我不太确定,因为要先提出一个以前说过的,形而上学的问题,就是,灵魂可以分裂么?
What better suggestion is there for what we could point to as the metaphysical glue, ? the key to personal identity?
还有什么更好的东西,我们可以用来,作为形而上粘质,作为人格同一性的关键?
Plato's going to argue once we understand the sort of metaphysical nature of the soul, we'll see why it couldn't be destroyed.
柏拉图会为我们证明,一旦我们理解了灵魂的哲学本质,我们就会明白为什么不能摧毁灵魂
Still if we ask, "What's doing the metaphysical ?" work here?" What's the key to ? being the same person?
如果我们问,“这和形而上学,有什么关系,成为同一个人的关键是什么?
So when I use the word "Soul," I will try to reserve it for the metaphysical view, according to which souls are something immaterial.
所以当我使用"灵魂"这个词时,我将会把它用在形而上学的观点里,这种观点认为,灵魂是非物质的
At least not if we try to take these claims fairly literally or take them to be metaphysical claims about the nature of death.
至少在我们从字面意义上,或从形而上学上解释死亡的本质时看不到。
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?
But the crucial point for this view is that the proper metaphysical understanding of the mind is to think of it in nonphysical terms, nonmaterial terms.
但是这个观点的关键之处在于,从哲学角度对心灵的恰当理解,必须是在非物理的条件下去思考的,非物质的条件
It seems to violate one of the fundamental metaphysical things about how people work.
这似乎违背了形而上学理论关于人存在的基本概念。
What's the metaphysical glue that underlies ? being a single extended-through-time person?
是什么形而上粘质,成为一个贯穿时间的人的基础?
Then you might worry about what's the relevant metaphysical glue for cars.
你可能会担心这些形而上的,部件对汽车来说有什么作用。
I don't know which of these metaphysical hypothesis is the correct one.
我不知道,哪个形而上的假设是正确的。
What's the metaphysical glue ? that glues these stages together?
把这阶段连接起来的,形而上粘质是什么呢?
All of this has to be yoked together in the imagery of a good poem, particularly of a metaphysical poem, and this model of complexity is what matters both for modern literature and for literary criticism.
一首好诗,的应该融合这些意象,尤其一首玄学诗,同时,这种复杂性,在现代文学,和文学批评中都十分重要。
Kaufman is claiming therefore that in Israel evil is transferred from the metaphysical realm universe) to the moral realm. I've put it up here for you.
因此在以色列,邪恶,从哲学范畴,转向了道德范畴,现在我告诉你们。
So again,I'm going to suppose here on out that the metaphysical view that I've been sketching is right; that physicalism is true.
所以我要再次假设,我描绘的那个形而上学的观点是正确的;,物理主义是正确的。
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。
We should also notice that... I should also mention that there're other metaphysical views about what goes on when an object exists over time.
我们应该注意到。,当一个物体,它的存在是贯穿时间的,还存在其他的形而上观点。
There may be some sort of metaphysical laws that tie the two things so tightly together that you'll never actually get one without the other.
因为一些形而上学的定律,将两者紧密联系在一起,使你无法把其分离开来
So we're asking the metaphysical question: What kind of a thing is a person?
所以我们在讨论的是一个哲学问题,人是一种什么样的东西
Evil is a moral and not a metaphysical reality.
邪恶是道德上而非哲学上的存在。
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