Can we altogether dispense with the idea that certain things we take pleasure in are better or worthier than others?

我们能摒弃这个观点吗,即我们某些喜好，比其它更好或更有价值？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

is to see through the group of human rights, if there are certain levels of social justice that we can ensure for every last person simply because they are human.

它提出要看到所有这些人权的本质，如果存在不同层次的社会正义,我们就要保证每个人获得某种程度的正义,就因为他们是人。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选