That is to say, plays, in which various characters sit around or stand around and argue about philosophical positions.

即,以戏剧为表现方式,其间各种人物悠闲地或坐或站,集聚一块儿,探讨各种哲学观点

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Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.

我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念

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And we can argue about whether or not that's work, but that has been the intention certainly in the 20th century and now 21st.

我们可以对这种现象有所争论，但这个观点,肯定是20世纪和现在21世纪的焦点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Despite that fact,I argue that we need to shift the pendulum and do more "positive research",or in other words, research that focuses on what works.

尽管如此，我还是认为我们该改变那比率,做更多“积极研究“，或者说，集中研究可行的事。

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Or freedom, they will argue, must be balanced with tradition.

他们认为自由,必须与传统相结合

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Maybe you want to argue it and we could have a discussion, but it might mean that American democracy, or democracy of any kind, helps to produce a particular kind of democratic soul.

也许你想争辩，果真如此,我们可以另作讨论，但那也许意谓着,美式民主，或任何一种民主，协助产生了,特定种类的民主灵魂。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And these aren't necessarily so incompatible but the evolutionary perspective I think would argue that you can feel that kind of love for more than one person or at least it would facilitate the passing on of your genetic material to a larger array of the next generation.

两种观点不太相容,但是持进化论观点的人认为,你可以和两个以上的人拥有完美式的爱情,至少会促进,你的基因传给更多下一代的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

It's not my purpose or intention here to try to argue you out of your religious beliefs or to argue against your religious beliefs.

但那不是我的目的,我不会因为你的宗教信仰和你争辩,或者跟它对立。

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I'm not--it's not my goal here to argue for or against these theological possibilities, having at least taken the time to explain philosophically how we could make sense of them.

我的目的不是想要争辩,这些神学上的可能，花时间来从哲学上解释,我们如何弄清这些道理。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Of course,these are also theological matters, and so I'm not trying to say anything here today to argue you out of the theological conviction that God will resurrect the body or God will transplant your personality into some new angel body, but if you believe in the personality theory, that will be you,or what have you.

当然，这些也是神学上的问题，我今天不会和你争辩,上帝能复活肉体或者将人格移植,进入新的某个天使的肉体，但如果你相信人格理论，那还是将成为你。

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