If we do justice and if we respect rights, society as a whole will be better off in the long run.

如果我们秉持公正，尊重权利，从长远看，社会整体会发展得更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

I hope it gave you a sense of its communal ethiC as opposed to an individual morality, the idea that the actions of every individual have an impact on society as a whole.

我希望它能给你们一种公共道德感,与个人道德感全然不同，那个观点是,个人的行为都会对作为整体的社会产生影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I can see how that happens with individual, how in moral man, in moral society, how do we get there as a society?

我有遇到一些很有道德的人，有道德的社会，但是作为整体的社会，应该怎样去做呢？

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Again, when we see this evidence, then it starts to help guide us about what we might do to make changes in society in general.

当我们看到这些事实的时候,我们就知道可能应该怎么做,才能在整体上改变这个社会

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

That remains not only the fundamental question for Hobbes, but for the entire, at least for the entire social contract tradition that he helped to establish.

这已不仅仅停留在,霍布斯的基本问题上，从整体来说，至少是从霍布斯帮助建立的,整个社会契约的传统上。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Justice is a name, for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility and are, therefore, of more paramount obligation than any others."

公正，对于一定的道德要求而言，从整体看来，在社会总功利的范畴内，更高等,因此也高于其它任何义务“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But the question is, in my present circumstances, with evil on my hands, entailed from my father, would the general interest of the slaves and community at large, with reference to the slaves, be promoted best by emancipation?

但问题是,在我目前的情况下,我已犯下如此罪行,我延续了父辈的罪恶,对于奴隶的问题,解放是否能够使,他们和全社会的整体利益得到提升呢

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Is it a book about the power of poetry and myth, what we would call the whole domain of culture to shape souls and to shape our societies?

这是本关于诗学与神话力量的书吗，即我们所谓形塑灵魂的文化整体范畴,同时亦形塑了我们的社会？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Well, he says because in the long run, if we do justice and if we respect rights, society as a whole will be better off in the long run.

他说，因为从长远看，如果我们秉持公正，尊重权利，社会整体会发展得更好。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选