And one way people do this is they take a hint from nature and they try to construct massively distributed networks to do aspects of reasoning.

进行研究的方法之一便是,研究者们从自然界获得启示,然后试图建立起广泛分布的网络,来进行不同的推理

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Ideas like this, as I say, are taken from the aesthetic and practical thinking about the nature of the work of art that one finds in Modernism.

这种观点,来自对,现代主义作品美学和实际的考虑。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What conclusions would we come to about the nature of death if we had to think about it from a secular perspective?

我们能得出关于自然死亡的什么结论,假如我们必须从,世俗的观点考虑它呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And doesn't Hobbes' materialism and his sort of mechanistic theory of nature seem to detract from any inherent worth ? of the individual?

难道霍布斯的唯物主义和,他的自然的机械理论,似乎有损于,个人的价值吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Hobbes wants this sort of dictatorship to keep people from brawling in the state of nature.

他希望建立一个类似独裁的政府,以制止人们在"自然状态"下的争斗

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

So in those circumstances, I'm an advocate of active euthanasia. I think it is just as if you have a dog who was dying from some disease, you wouldn't say, well we just let nature take its call.

所以这种情况下，我通常会,支持安乐死，我认为,这就像是你的狗得了病,马上就要死了，你不会说，嗯，我们顺其自然吧。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The subject of the debate has been the nature of the fallen angels' political future: essentially, the question is where do we go from here? Moloch, you'll remember, is the military general who will risk absolutely anything for revenge.

辩论的主题是,堕落天使政治前途的本来面目：，关键问题在于,我们从这里要走向何方？，你们记得莫洛克吧，他是一位将军，愿不惜一切代价复仇。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

John Locke accounted for the rise of private property from the state of nature by a chain of reasoning very similar to the one that Nozick and the libertarians use.

洛克从自然状态角度,解释了私有财产的兴起,他的推理思路,和诺齐克等自由主义者的思路相似。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Rather, they emerge from contingent aspects of our biological nature.

相反，他们在我们的生物特性中,偶然呈现。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So, a natural product is something that is made by nature, and often natural products, whether it comes from a plant or a marine organism have some really good, useful properties. And so, one particular compound has anti-tumor properties. So, again, along this line of cancer research.

天然产物是在自然界中生成的,通常一个天然产物，不管是来自植物或者海洋生物,都有些非常好非常实用的性质，其中的一个特殊的化合物,可以治疗癌症,再一次我们又来到癌症研究上。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

If we look down at it and say, "It's a terrible thing that " I just derive benefits from helping other people", then that part of our nature will depreciate over time.

如果我鄙视它并说，“很可怕,我从帮助他人身上获得利益，那么本性中那一部分将随时间贬值。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue, and to restrain them from vice.

可以看出,希腊人依赖一个良好的政治体制,以发挥个人天性中的潜能,去培养他们的美德,去遏制他们的恶习

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's determined by the laws of nature that the effect that follows will follow from that cause.

自然法则决定了,这个结果必然跟随这个原因产生

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Hobbes derives the very power of the sovereign from the natural right of each individual to do as they like in the state of nature.

他认为君主的权力源自于,人民原本在自然社会中,能自由行使的个人权力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So in sum, Kaufman's argument is this: Israel conceived of the divine in an entirely new way. Israel's God differed from the pagan gods in his essential nature. The pagan gods were natural gods.

总而言之，考夫曼的观点就是：以色列从一种全新的角度,构想了神的世界，以色列的上帝与异教的众神,在本质上完全不同，异教的众神是自然的神。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In a stunning admission, he says, listen to this, that "while nature may intend to distinguish the free man from the slave," he says, "the opposite often results.

听听这一段，精彩的坦承谈话，他说：，“虽然自然可能倾向于,将自由人从奴隶中区别出来，但常是事与愿违。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选