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。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And I think that for some people, you too, Bruce Springsteen and Bruce Springsteen, actually helped them to make sense of their lives. -No doubt about it.

它还帮助许多人，包括你，包括,了解生活的意义，-的确如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We make evaluations not just of entire lives, but of chunks of lives.

我们不仅能评估整个人生，还能评估人生的不同时段。

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Not just to enliven these abstract and distant books but to make clear, to bring out what's at stake in our everyday lives, including our political lives, for philosophy.

不仅是为了将这些深奥抽象的著作形象化,还为了让我们通过哲学辨明,日常生活，包括政治生活中什么才是最关键的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Because you would know being a good utilitarian that taking some, a small amount, he'd scarcely going to notice it, but it will make a huge improvement in the lives and in the welfare of those at the bottom.

因为作为一个优秀的功利主义者，你知道,收走一些对他们来说根本无关痛痒的钱，却能大大改善社会底层那些人的生活,增加他们的福利。

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