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。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Some people would say, Well, there's still a part of our church, there's still a part of our Mass, there's still a part of our synagogue, we don't have to hire someone who doesn't agree with our principles.

一些人会说，我们仍保留着部分教堂生活，仍然保留着部分弥撒活动，仍保留着部分犹太教会堂，我们不必雇佣一个,不赞同我们原则的人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

If you start listing all the things worth having in life, it might seem as though you couldn't possibly come to any general organizing principles.

假设你开始列出人生中值得拥有的东西，你似乎不可能,总结出一个概括性的组织准则。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I just like it or I just don't like it according to principles that can be understood as arising from the faculty of judgment and not from the faculty of the understanding, which is appetitive, and the faculty of reason, which is moral.

我只是根据原则来判断喜欢还是不喜欢,这也可以被理解为从判断力出发,而不是从本能的理解力，或是道德上的理性出发。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What I am going to do next day is go into the larger stoichiometry and understand the principles of mass balance and reactivity But before you go,hold it,I don't want you racing off.

下堂课我要做的是,讨论化学计量学，和,质量平衡很反应定律,但在下课之前，我不希望你们这么快走。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选