Since her nomination last week, comes this women Sonia Sotomayor has been heavily scrutinized, but not on her possible views concerning abortion,gun control, or any other issue that often divides Americans on political or moral grounds.

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Every great moral philosopher has a strategy for helping us submit our passions to some kind of control, to some kind of supervening moral power.

每一位伟大的道德哲学家,都有其办法可以助我们,让激情得到某种控制，并进而产生某种道德的力量。

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What's particularly interesting is even groups that are formed, that you were not born with, that are formed on the fly, exert a huge amount of control over your moral feelings and moral attitudes.

特别有趣的是，后天形成的群体，不是那天生下来就属于，而是在生活中形成的，能够极大地控制,你的道德情感和道德态度。

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