"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

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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God created a good world, But humans in the exercise of their moral autonomy, They have the power to corrupt the good.

上帝创作了一个美好的世界，但人类掌控自己的道德，他们有能力腐蚀美好事物。

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By now, in our time, however, the power of religion has faded, and for many, the basis of modern political and moral order has been demolished.

但是现在,宗教的影响力慢慢减弱了,对大部分人来说,现代政治,道德准则的基础已经被毁坏了

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He implies that it's the power of moral choice alone that is godlike.

他暗示了道德选择力本身就是有神性的。

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