but once I could see that ethics and political philosophy really could make a difference to the way we live our lives.

但是当我看到，伦理学和政治哲学,的确可以改变我们的生活方式时。

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Well, I would certainly never have make a career out of philosophy, if I have focused on issues that didn't have any impact on our lives.

我永远都不会,将哲学作为我的职业，如果我一直关注的是,与我们的生活无关紧要的话题。

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For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

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.. I think of both of these as incorporating-- I would, especially with Harsanyi, but also with Rawls-- as incorporating some idea of risk management into our basic philosophy.

这两者都-,我想。。。特别是海萨尼，当然罗尔斯也是-,这两人将风险管理的理念,引入到我们的基本哲学思维中。

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Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

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