Let me give you an account of myself and let me establish the reasons why you need to go on listening to me and why you should believe my position on this or that political or ecclesiastical topic."

让我向你们介绍一下自己，然后说明,为什么你们要继续听我说以及为什么,你们要相信我的政治或宗教立场，“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Then later on, if I wish, I can establish a canon by saying certain texts have certain significance and those are the texts that I care about and want to read, but I can only do that if I can distinguish between meaning and significance.

而后来，如果我希望，我可以通过说什么来树立一个标准,比如说，一些作品有固定意义,因此我只关心只想读那些作品，但是我只有,能够分清意思和意义之后，才能那样做。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.

所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The aim of the Republic is to establish a harmonious city, based on a conception of justice that, so to speak, harmonizes the individual and society, how to achieve that.

理想国》的主要目的,是要建立一座和谐的城邦，其基础概念是正义，也可以说是要协调个人与社会，及陈述达成目的的方法。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选