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.
VOA: standard.2009.05.31
When, if ever, is suicide an appropriate, ? rational or moral response to one's situation?
什么时候,如果有的话,自杀是合适的,合理的或道德的回应呢?
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。
He said she believed all human action was the result of a physical health issue or a moral one.
VOA: special.2009.03.15
If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth, value growth or moral development in human being, then I maintain that we can learn most by studying our most moral,ethical,or saintly people.
如果想知道心灵成长的可能性,人类价值增长或道德发展的可能性,那我认为,我们可以研究,最道德或圣洁的人。
Its members opposed slavery for either moral or economic reasons.
VOA: special.2009.05.07
Here are a few laws that express the idea that the experience of slavery and liberation should be the wellspring for moral action. It should be the impetus for moral action. Exodus 22:20: "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
这里有几条法律可以说明奴隶制和解放的历史经历,应该是道德行为的源泉,它应该是,道德行为的动力,《出埃及记》第22章21节提到,“不可亏负,寄居的,也不可欺压他,因为你们在埃及地也作过寄居的“
So these are the kind of moral or value questions we'll be concerned with until the end of the term.
这些都是道德和价值的问题,我们会一直研究直到学期结束。
a claim for the individual's capacity to make a moral judgment after some period of trial, or after some period of experimentation.
个人在一段时间的尝试后,或是在一段时间的实验后,去做正确判断的能力。
Things are either pleasant or unpleasant. The good, on the contrary, - is the way in which our cognitive and moral faculty-- which Kant calls "the reason"--understands things.
事情总是有好有坏,但只有好的东西才能被我们的,感官和道德感-,也就是康德笔下的“理性“,所认知。
We don't know whether this was because he didn't want to take the chance or because he believed in categorical moral principles.
不知道他是因为不愿意冒这个险呢,还是因为他信奉绝对主义道德原则。
It is that most of us are really making money for ourselves-- that's what we do with our lives--and whether or not that is moral.
我们绝大多数人,都在为自己赚钱,这就是我们生活的方式,赚钱方式也无论道德与否
Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.
语言的力量无可估量,绝不是单单使用一下那么简单:,而是通过假意遵从,以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。
The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.
比如那些精神病人,不论是因为大脑受损而造成的,还是先天性的,并没有道德观念,可以帮助我们研究自由和责任的问题,或是研究心理疾病与邪恶的关系或区别
This is a problem that we will see considerably later in the term that vexes a very important political thinker by the name of Hobbes about whether an individual can somehow put their own sense of conscience or moral integrity even above the law.
这是个我们,稍后会仔细探讨的问题,也是让这位重要政治思想家,贺伯斯大力争论的问题,他质疑个人,是否可以将其自身的道义感,或道德正直置于法律之上。
Also, moral impurity is not removed or reducible through rituals, through washings and launderings, ritual ablutions and the like.
此外,道德不洁不能通过仪式来去除或减少,类似于洗、烫、沐浴仪式等等都不行。
That's where I can have moral or immoral behavior toward my best friend or baby, or other people in general.
我可以选择道德和不道德的行为,对待最好的朋友,孩子或一般人。
But your food shall be the grasses of the field; By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat" So knowledge or wisdom or perhaps moral freedom seem to come at a very high price.
你也要吃田间的菜蔬;,你必须汗流满面,才得以糊口“,所以,人类为得到智慧,道德自由,付出了极大的代价。
I think now we can see why these lines about the autumnal leavesare so difficult for us to incorporate into a moral reading or a theological reading of the poem.
我们现在可以看到为什么,这些关于秋天的落叶的句子如此难以,与对这首诗的道德或者神学的理解相结合。
The Apology and the Crito represent a tension, they represent even a conflict between two more or less permanent and irreconcilable moral codes.
苏格拉底自辩篇》和《克里托篇》,代表着一种张力,它们甚至可说代表着两种,多少算是永恒,且无法调和的道德规范。
If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.
如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话,它们就不能被称作道德法则。
In other words, yeah, I still like it or don't like it, - but my liking has nothing to do either with desire or with approval-- moral, political, or however the case may be.
换句话说就是,没错,我还是喜欢它或者不喜欢它,但是这与我的主观意志无关-,不管是什么认同,道德,还是政治,与一切都无关。
The tension or suspense is: what will the moral be?
而这个张力和悬念是,那会是个什么寓意?
Would it be just to torture the suspect to get the information or do you say no, there is a categorical moral duty of respect for individual rights?
为了拿到情报而对他严刑拷打,是否合理,抑或你不赞同,你认为有尊重个人权利的绝对道德责任?
And we need to ask in the case of higher or worthier pleasures are there theories of the good life that can provide independent moral standards for the worth of pleasures?
我们要问,就更高的或更有价值的快乐而言,是否存在“良善生活“的理论,能为快乐的价值,提供独立的道德标准?
Just bracket any moral concerns you may have about torturing other people or agreeing that somebody else should be tortured.
先不去想折磨别人,或同意别人被折磨所产生的道德问题。
How does Socrates answer these charges of, in a way being not just an abstainer but he kept putting his own private moral conscience or integrity over and above the law?
苏格拉底如何回答这些指控,不只是以一种疏离的角度,虽然他持续让,自身的道德感或正直,凌驾法律之上?
But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?
但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处,我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话?
He argued that this John Milton fellow simply couldn't be heeded on matters of the church, or on matters of the state, because Milton himself had absolutely no moral authority.
他批判到,弥尔顿根本不重视教会事务,或者国家事物,因为弥尔顿自己就没有绝对的道德权威。
Many laws try to promote the virtue of citizens or try to give expression to the moral values of the society as a whole.
很多法律试图提高公民的品德,或者试图树立,整个社会的道德标准。
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