So any kind of ideas, I think any community is defined by its religiosity; they're still made up by normal individuals and human beings.

我想，任何的想法,任何的社会都是由其宗教信仰所定义的,它们仍然是由个人所组成的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

There're other women in the same religious community who'll say, "this is no human rights infringement at all.

也有同一个宗教团体中的其他女性,会说“这根本不是侵犯人权。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

For Aristotle, human beings have a goal or a telos, which is to live a life in community with others for the sake of human flourishing.

亚里士多德认为，人类是有目的的，这个目的就是，与他人住在一起,最终达到人类的生生不息。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You cannot truly achieve what you want and need as a human being without being an active and loyal citizen of this great community which you need to achieve what you want in life.

在这个你必须有所作为的庞大社会中,如果你并非一个积极且虔诚的公民,那么你就无法真正实现,你的所需和所求

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选