TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(14)

But Danny, the whole American endeavor is about life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. 可是丹尼,生命、自由和追求快乐是所有美国人奋斗的目标。 If people took seriously that finding, 假若大家都认真对待这一发现, I mean, it seems to turn upside down everything we believe about, like for example, taxation policy and so forth. 那么,这将颠覆我们固有的观念,例如...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(13)

Thank you. I’ve got a question for you. Thank you so much. 谢谢您的演讲。我有个问题想请教您。非常感谢您的演说。 Now, when we were on the phone a few weeks ago, 几星期前,我们有过一次电话通讯, you mentioned to me that there was quite an interesting result came out of that Gallup survey. 当时您提到您从盖洛普的调查中发现了一个有趣的现象。 Is that somet...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:哲学早餐俱乐部(7)

The British Association would later be the first 英国科学进步协会也是后来 of the major national science organizations in the world to admit women as full members. 第一个接收女性成为正式会员的主流国家学术团体。 Up to the 19th century, natural philosophers were expected to pay for their own equipment and supplies. 上至19世纪,自然哲学家是需要自己支付实验设备和...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:经验与记忆之谜(5)

From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time. 从经验自我的角度来看,病人B显然是比较难受的。 Now, what you could do with Patient A, and we actually ran clinical experiments, 那么病人A的情况该如何解释,我们实际做了一个临床试验, and it has been done, and it does work 当实验完成时,我们也得到了预期的结果, you could actually ex...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(3)

There are other reasons why it’s perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. 还有一些其他理由让我们比过去更难获得平静。 One of these, and it’s paradoxical, because it’s linked to something that’s rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. 有些矛盾,因为拥有自己的事业是一件不错的事, Never before have expectations been so ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(6)

I’m drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in “The City of God,” where he says, “It’s a sin to judge any man by his post.” 我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话,他说,“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。 In modern English that would mean it’s a sin to come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. 用现在...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(5)

You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an “unfortunate” 你知道,在中世纪的英国,当你遇见一个非常穷苦的人,你会认为他“不走运”, literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate. 直接地说,那些不被幸运之神眷顾的人,不幸的人。 Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(7)

And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. 我去找他们聊聊西方艺术中最伟大的几个悲剧故事。 I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, 我想知道他们会如何露骨地以新闻的方式, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon. 在周日下午的新闻台上呈现这些经典悲剧故事。 I me...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(9)

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, 常常,我们对一个成功人生的想象, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. 不是来自我们自己,而是来自他人。 They’re sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you’re a man, your father, and if you’re a woman, your mother. 如果你是个男人,你会以父亲做榜...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(2)

The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. 今天,最主要的势利就是对职业的势利。 You encounter it within minutes at a party, 你在派对中不用一分钟就能体会到, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, “What do you do?” 当你被问到这个21世纪初最有代表性的问题:你是做什么的? According to how ...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(8)

Our heroes are human heroes. That’s a very new situation. 我们的英雄是人类。这是一个崭新的情况。 Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: 历史中大部分的社会重心都是敬拜一位人类以外的灵体, a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is — something else that is being worshiped. 神...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(10)

That was fascinating. But how do you reconcile this idea of it being bad to think of someone as a “loser,” 说的真好。你要如何与自己和解,把一个人称为失败者是糟糕的, with the idea that a lot of people like, of seizing control of your life, 但许多人都想掌握自己的生活, and that a society that encourages that, perhaps has to have some winners and losers? 一个追求这...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(4)

It’s probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, 今日你变得像比尔·盖茨一样,有钱又出名的机会, as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. 大概就跟你在十七世纪成为法国贵族一样困难。 But the point is, it doesn’t feel that way. 但重点是,感觉却差别很大。 It’s ma...

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TED演讲之败中求胜 温和的成功哲学(1)

For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, 我经常对事业感到恐慌,周日下午,晚霞洒满天空, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow. 理想和现实的差距是这样残酷,令我沮丧的只想抱头痛哭。...

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美文阅读 (207)爱的哲学

The fountains mingle with the river 泉水汇入溪流 And the rivers with the ocean 溪流汇入海洋 The winds of Heaven mix forever 天际缕缕清风总是交织而至 With a sweet emotion 甜蜜涌动 Nothing in the world is single 这世上没有什么是形单影只的 All things by a law divine 万物都遵循一条神圣的定律 In one spirit meet and mingle 相存相依 Why no...

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一个新的世界,“当然”哲学

不久前,我去了趟华盛顿,一名埃塞俄比亚的计程车司机接的我。当我们经过一群要求在美国首都行驶游行权利的抗议者的时候,司机告诉我说:“如果是在埃塞俄比亚,抗议者不是被枪毙就是要进监狱——就像我一样。事实上,我还要为美国的民主制度欢呼,因为这样的民主制度鼓励自由言论和个体思想。” 这些即兴的交流使我再次意识到,生活在一个人人享有言论自由和解放的国家是多么幸福。 ...

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