So if somebody comes along and says No,no,everybody dies alone, and dying as part of a joint undertaking is impossible, they're just saying something false.

如果有人说，不，大家都是孤独而死的，死亡作为共同行动是不可能的，他们就错了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.

法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

If you leave the body alone, maybe there's no force acting on it.

如果你把物体丢在一边,可能就没有外力作用在它上面

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Antiquity or tradition alone is no justification yet at the same time he seems to recognize that changes in law even when the result : is improvement are dangerous. He writes "It is a bad thing to habituate people to reckless dissolution of laws.

作为借口，但同时,他似乎也体认到法律修改,就算结果是改善,仍是很危险的作法，他写到,“让人民习惯于鲁莽的法律,崩溃是不好的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选