Even the expulsion of Satan from heaven was not sufficient to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the legitimate authority of God.

即使是将撒旦逐出天堂也不足以,无可置疑的证明上帝的至高权威。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The noble families of Greece,and we see it already in Homer, typically claim descent from some god or other and ordinary people do not have that ability.

希腊的贵族家族,我们在荷马身上已看到了,典型地声称贵族权力由神祇所授予,并表示普通人没有那种能力

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But then of course, the rise of the Enlightenment is also the rise of anthropocentrism, and by the time the Enlightenment is in full cry you get everybody from Blake to Marx to Nietzsche saying not that God invented man, but that man invented God.

但当然，文艺复兴的兴起也是人类中心说的兴起，到文艺复兴的繁盛时期,从布莱克到马克思到尼采,每个人在说不是上帝发明了人类，而是人类发明了上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It should not be limited or constrained by any transcendent standards or moral laws that do not derive from politics itself, whether a law of God or some kind of transcendent moral order or code.

它不可以被任何超验的准则或道德条律所,限制和束缚，因为那些并非源自于,政治本身，无论那是上帝的法则，还是,某种超验的道德命令或准则。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选