So what we need to examine now is whether John Stuart Mill had a convincing reply to these objections to utilitarianism.

我们现在的任务是思考穆勒,是否令人信服地回应了对功利主义的质疑。

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There are no arguments in Homer's Iliad or Odyssey. You hear strong and compelling stories but no arguments.

没有辩论存在于荷马的《伊利亚德》,或《奥德赛》书中，你可以读到强烈,与令人信服的故事，但没有争辩。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So at best that's a tie, and hence, no compelling reason to accept the existence of a soul.

这最多只能算是平局,所以,还没有令人信服的理由来接受灵魂的存在

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Very good yes, and that's a big argument that nobody has a good answer for.

好问题,还没有人给出令人信服的答案

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If every time I get the same acceleration, I'm convinced this is a reliable spring that is somehow producing the same force under the same condition.

如果每次都能得到相同的加速度,这个弹簧的可靠性就能令人信服,即它在相同的条件下能够产生相等的力

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But this isn't very convincing. Only one set of diseases is said to generate ritual impurity, and many substances these are not sources of ritual impurity to Israel's priests.

但这不是很令人信服，只有某一疾病,时由于不洁的仪式引发的，很多,这些对以色列祭司来说并不是不洁的来源。

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Convincing argument; right?

很令人信服的说法，对吗？

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And the striking thing is that many people find this a pretty compelling argument.

但令人称道的是,很多人认为这个论证是令人信服的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And I said, "That doesn't seem to be a compelling argument."

而我也说过,这看上去并不是一个令人信服的论证

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I can't see any good reason to believe premise two, and as far as I can see, Plato doesn't actually give us any reason to believe it in the dialogue.

我找不到什么很好的原因来相信前提二,在我看来,柏拉图在对话录中,也没有给出任何令人信服的理由

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If what we mean is the mental, but that the aspect, the behavioral aspect of the mental, where even a chess-playing computer probably has it, then that's not a very compelling argument.

如果我们说的是精神的某个方面,即精神的表现面,是一个甚至连象棋程序都可能拥有的方面,那这就不是一个令人信服的论点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So this initial argument, I think, is not compelling.

因此对于这个初始的论点,我认为它并不令人信服

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For my money, I find the beginnings of the scientific explanation sufficiently persuasive and sufficiently compelling that I don't find the argument from near- death experience--as an argument for the existence of a soul-- I don't find it especially persuasive.

在我看来,我觉得这些初步的,科学解释已经足够有说服力,足够令人信服,而从濒死体验的角度,来证明灵魂存在论证,我认为它不是特别有说服力

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