So, that was more like solving chess puzzles, and I couldn't have seen a career on that.
所以这一切更像是解一个棋局,我原来从不认为哲学可以成为一种职业。
I want to make another, slightly more philosophical remark associated with this and it's to do with the idea of "Leadership."
第二条结论就是,我不妨说得稍带有些哲学的意味,这和领导力是紧密联系的
He says, "I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are."
他说我相信我们所称作的,关于魔法的实践和哲学,我认为那是对灵魂的召唤,尽管我并不知道它们是什么“
But I enjoyed it when I finished it. And I was offered a scholarship to do some graduate work because I've done well at it. And it just got went on from there.
但是当我修完了哲学课,我觉得我很享受学习的过程,学校授予了我奖学金来做硕士的研究,因为我在哲学方面做得很好,从那时起,我走上了哲学的道路。
And as a starting point there's a lovely quote from the psychologist and philosopher William James that I want to begin with.
作为开始,有一个可爱的引言,是心理学家和哲学家,威廉,詹姆斯说的,我想用它做开始。
but I'd like to argue today that this is not just a philosophical question,this is a scientific question.
但我今天想说的是,这不仅仅是一个,哲学问题,它还是一个科学问题。
Well, now as you will hear on several occasions over the course of the semester, I'm a philosopher.
你们将会多次在这门课上,听到我这些话,我是一个哲学家
And you'll be reading in 3 philosophical film makers a 78-page chapter on Orson Welles who is one of my great heroes.
你们要读奥逊·威尔斯的材料,那一章78页,里面会提到3个哲学电影制作人,威尔斯是我最崇拜的英雄。
So on that I'm going to end today and next time we will talk about justice, the philosophers and Plato's discovery of America.
今天,我要以此作结,下次我们将谈到正义、,哲学家及透过柏拉图探索美国。
And that was when I switched my concentration from computer science to philosophy and psychology with a single question: ? how can I become happier?
于是我将研究方向,从计算机科学转向了哲学及心理系,目标只有一个:,如何变得更快乐?
Well, one of the greatest philosophers I ever read was Aristotle and I think his Nicomachean Ethics, if you read it, makes a great deal of sense -where you live with this golden mean but at the end use your intellect.
我所了解的哲学家之一是,亚里士多德,我觉得他写的《尼各马克伦理学》,非常有意义,如果你读一读的话你就会发现这一点,-在读这本书时你与他的中庸之道同在,但最终你还需动用你的智慧。
The technical expression of that in philosophy is common knowledge, which I can never spell, so I'm going to wing it.
在哲学上叫做共同知识,我不知道拼写对不对,我看一下
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。
And I've got to tell you, to this day there's a debate in the philosophical community about whether or not this argument works.
我已经告诉过你们,现今哲学界依旧在争论,到底这个论证是否正确
The superego, point to point, is not some brilliant moral philosopher telling you about right and wrong.
超我并不是一位能够教你明辨是非的,伟大的道德哲学家。
Let me start today : by asking the question "? "what is political philosophy?"
今天一开始,我要问个问题,“什么是政治哲学“
And a lot of it is already in those books but my hope is that our goal to the next book by transcending it through this common experience with you and already thinking in those terms.
很多书有讲这些哲学问题,但我希望通过和你们一起的经历,我们的下一本书,能够超过上一本书,这些都已经在前几个学期开始构思了。
The final and the fifth premise is an important one; is a philosophical one but one I want to introduce at the beginning of the course so that you understand where I am coming from, where this course is coming from-- because many people say, "Ok, so happiness is important.
最后也是第五个前提很重要;,是一个哲学前提,但我想在课程开始时介绍,你们好理解我讲课的起源,这门课程的来源-,因为很多人说,好的,快乐是重要的。
I was particularly interested in metaphysical poetry political philosophy -- I wrote my thesis on a radical political philosopher of the 17th century of the civil war period.
我尤其感兴趣的是玄学诗派,和政治哲学,我的毕业论文,就是有关一名激进的政治哲学家,他生活在内战的十八世纪。
I wonder what is your views about, what does philosophy have to say with life after death?
我也很好奇,您认为,哲学将怎样解读来世?
And I'm studying politics and philosophy in Princeton.
我现在在普林斯顿大学学习政治学与哲学。
Is this something you always grow up saying, "I wanna be a philosopher when I grow up."
您小的时候是不是常常说,“等我长大了,我要做一个哲学家“
And I asked him what philosophy has to say about his death, his immediate death.
我问他哲学将怎样解释,他的离世。
So the courses I took - -actually I took some English history obviously - I took no American history which would be the field I did in the PHD, but I took a lot of courses in philosophy, in literature.
所以我选了一些课程,当然我选修了英国历史-,但我没有学美国历史,因为那是我博士时的课程,但我选了很多哲学和文学方面的课程。
Well, the thought, I suppose is, in philosopher's jargon, that the computer is a deterministic system.
对于这个观点,我认为,以哲学的语言可以表达为,电脑是个决定论的系统
He'd think to himself I'm the very same person who was lecturing about philosophy last week.
他会以为,我和上星期上哲学课的人,是同一个人。
And as I say, to this day, philosophers disagree about whether this argument works or not.
我说过,迄今为止,哲学家们对于这个论证是否正确很有争议
And in typical philosophical fashion, I've drawn that story for you up here on the board.
从典型的哲学观点来看,我已经把整个过程画在了黑板上
Shelly Kagan For example,the belief that I'm Shelly Kagan, professor of philosophy at Yale University.
比如说,我是,是耶鲁大学哲学教授这个信念。
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