Why this struggle, and why must Milton struggle with such awkward metaphysical categories in order simply to address properly the power of light?

为什么弥尔顿必须,与这样一个奇怪的抽象的东西斗争,仅仅是为了恰当的描述光明的力量？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

By now, in our time, however, the power of religion has faded, and for many, the basis of modern political and moral order has been demolished.

但是现在,宗教的影响力慢慢减弱了,对大部分人来说,现代政治,道德准则的基础已经被毁坏了

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There's no transcendent cosmic order or power.

没有超宇宙的秩序或力量的存在。

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Yeah, particularly when it takes prophetic form, that is a form that stands in condemnation of those things in sort of order, in the rums of power, that enslave people, that oppress people that mistreat people.

是的，尤其是以先知预言形式出现的时候，谴责那些,在命令和权力下，奴役人们，压迫人们,虐待人们的现象。

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