We are bodies in motion, and who cannot help but obey the law or the physics of attraction and repulsion.

我们处在运动状态，这是无法控制的，只有遵循规律,或者引力和斥力的规律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

From one point of view, reading Hobbes, his account of the state of nature seems to derive from his physics of motion and rest, in the opening chapters of Leviathan.

一方面，阅读霍布斯，他关于自然状态的解释似乎,来源于他关于运动和静止的物理学，这也在《利维坦》的开篇章节。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The way the physics works is you will find some laws of motion in mathematical form, you put in the initial conditions of whatever, you solve the equations, and the answer that comes, you have no choice.

在物理问题中,你可以用数学方法得到运动定律,你代入初始条件,然后解方程,获得答案,你别无选择

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The opening chapters of Leviathan, which I have only assigned a few, but the opening chapters present a kind of political physics where human beings are reduced to body and the body is further reduced to so much matter and motion.

利维坦》的开头几章，我只给你们布置了一些，开头几章呈现出,一种政治性的物理学,人类被缩小到身体,而身体继续被缩小到,大量物质和运动。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选