Oh, they are. And at the moment there is a bill that I think over the past couple of years has been presented to the legislator.

是的，现在,就有这样一个法案，在几年前,人们把它提交给了立法者。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Bentham tells us happiness, or more precisely, utility maximizing utility as a principle not only for individuals but also for communities and for legislators.

边沁说，应最大化幸福，或更精确来说，最大化功利,功利最大化原则，不只针对个人,也适用于共同体及立法者。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Are the philosophers or are the poets you might say the true legislators for mankind ?! if you want to use Shelley's dictum?

是哲学家或是诗学家,或者你可以说，人类的真正立法者,如果你想要借用雪莱名言的话？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Which one legislates for mankind ? at the time of Socrates?

那一种是苏格拉底时期,人类的真正立法者？

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And so we should base morality, whether we're thinking about what to do in our own lives or whether as legislators or citizens, we're thinking about what the laws should be.

所以我们应以道德为基准，不管是在考虑个人行为时,还是作为立法者或普通公民，考虑如何立法时。

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It should be taught from the universities and from this conversation will be sprinkled upon the people. Hobbes' hope, like that of all the great political philosophers, was to be a kind of legislator for mankind.

通过对话交流的方式,对他人起到潜移默化的作用,像古往今来那些伟大的政治哲学家们一样,霍布斯也希望自己在某一天，成为人类行为规范的立法者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选