Paul Raushenbush This is Paul Raushenbush, the associate dean of Religious Life at Princeton University, signing off from the Inner Core.

我是，是普林斯顿大学宗教生活副院长,是普林斯顿大学宗教生活副院长，本期的“人性讲堂“就到这里。

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In the star war movies, Darth Vader webs out his life server and slices off the--hand of Luke SkyWalker.

星球大战电影里，达斯·维特脱下救生圈时,砍掉了卢克·天行者的手。

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There was a pretender to the throne, and this man was--his life got off to an interesting start.

有一个觊觎王位的人,这个人的一生,有一个有趣的开始

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But the guy working, the one on the track off to the side, he didn't choose to sacrifice his life any more than the fat man did, did he?

但在侧轨上施工的那名工人，他并不比那个胖子，更愿意牺牲自我，不是吗？

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So I start by trying to strip off the parts of my conscious life that I know I won't have when I'm dead.

所以我决定开始剥离那些,我知道死后不会有的,有意识的生活的各个部分。

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.. How valuable-- how well off you are, how valuable your life is, is a function of the contents, the pleasure and the pain.

生命的价值-,你有多幸福，你的生活有多少价值，是生活内容的函数，即快乐与痛苦的函数。

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Which of the various futures that are open to me are likely to give me the better life, leave me better off, measured in terms of pleasure or pain?

也就是向我敞开的各种未来,哪种能给我更好的生活，让我更幸福，用快乐和痛苦来衡量？

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Now, notice that if we accept this view to decide how well off I am, or somebody else is, you can't just add up the contents of the life.

请注意,如果用这种观点决定自己的幸福程度，或者其他人的幸福程度，你就不能单单把生活内容加起来。

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" How well off was I, having lived that life?"

那样的生活到底给了我多少幸福“

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Now, in stating this view this way, I'm obviously presupposing that we can make these kinds of, at least, overall judgments in terms of the quality of your life, how well off you are.

经过这样审视这个观点，显然我是事先假设了我们能够做出,起码是对生命质量,做出一般性的判断，你有多幸福。

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