名人演讲 :同性恋与道德的关系(7)

So, what is it really about? We need to look to some of the non-religious, or secular, arguments against homosexuality, and we especially need to do that if we are genuinely committed to living in a society that embraces freedom of religion. 所以,真正的原因是什么?我们来看看一些非宗教的,或者可以说更世俗的观点。当我们生存在一个支持宗教自由的社会里并且真心热爱它的时候,我们...

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名人演讲 :同性恋与道德的关系(20)

In the simple act of saying "his partner, Mark," not "his friend," or not "his roommate." 她的话非常简单:"他的爱人马克",她没有说"他的朋友"或者"他的室友"。 I mean you could hear the quote marks around the words. This is John's "roommate." His partner. 你甚至能从这话里听出言不由衷的引号来:这是约翰的&q...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(9)

Now, to say this is not to say that we have got the perfect solution in our own society. 我这么说,并不是说我们的社会有最完美的解答 For instance, this is what it’s like to go to a newsstand almost anywhere in the civilized world. 举例来说,现在你到任何文明国家的报摊,都可以看到这样的景象 Now, granted, for many men it may require a degree in philosophy to see something ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(15)

And if the results come out that actually they do, 如果结论是她们真的快乐 are you prepared to shift your instinctive current judgment on some of these issues? 你准备好改变你现在在这些议题上的直观判断了吗? Well yeah, modulo one obvious fact, 举个真实案例 that you can love someone in the context of a truly delusional belief system. 就算在一个虚假的道德体系里,你还是可以爱人 S...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(5)

But if questions affect human well-being 但如果这个问题是影响到人身幸福的 then they do have answers, whether or not we can find them. 他们是有答案的,无论我们找不着得到 And just admitting this — just admitting that there are right and wrong answers to the question of how humans flourish 承认吧,当我们尝试解决人类幸福的问题是可能会有错误答案的 will change the way we tal...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(14)

A lot of people want to believe in this concept of moral progress. 许多人想要相信道德进步的这个概念 But can you reconcile that? 但是这有可能达到和谐吗? I think I understood you to say that you could 我想我了解你所说的 reconcile that with a world that doesn't become one dimensional, where we all have to think the same. 不要让世界变得只有一种道德,也不需要大家都只有一种想...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(12)

Does the Taliban have a point of view on physics that is worth considering? No. 难道塔利班对物理学的意见也值得我们考虑吗?不。 How is their ignorance any less obvious on the subject of human well-being? 但他们对幸福的无知和他们对物理的无知有什么不同? So, this, I think, is what the world needs now. 现在世界所需要的是 It needs people like ourselves to admit that there are rig...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(7)

There is clearly a range of materials that constitute healthy food. 一个健康的饮食方式中有许多不同食物 But there's nevertheless a clear distinction between food and poison. 但从没有人会把食物和毒物搞错 The fact that there are many right answers to the question, "What is food?" 当我们问“什么是食物?”的时候,有许多正确答案 does not tempt us to say that there are ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(11)

He likes chocolate, he likes vanilla. 他喜欢巧克力,他喜欢香草 There's nothing that one should be able to say to the other that should persuade the other. 无论跟他们说什么,都不能改变他们。 Notice that we don't do this in science. 但我们不会这样讨论科学 On the left you have Edward Witten. He's a string theorist. 左边这位是爱德华·威滕。他是弦理论的专家 If you ask ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(13)

So, some combustible material there. 让我提出一些争议性的问题 Whether in this audience or people elsewhere in the world, 这里有某些人,或现在在世界上别的角落 hearing some of this, may well be doing the screaming-with-rage thing, after as well, some of them. 可能有人听见这个,然后愤怒或尖叫。某些人。 Language seems to be really important here. 语言似乎是个很重要的元素 When yo...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(10)

In fact, the endurance of religion as a lens through which most people view moral questions 事实上,在许久以来,宗教成为人们关注道德的角度 has separated most moral talk from real questions of human and animal suffering. 让所有的道德议题都和人类和动物的痛苦脱钩 This is why we spend our time talking about things like gay marriage 这就是为什么我们花费精神讨论同性恋是不是应该结...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(3)

And we know that it's possible to move along this continuum 我们知道我们可以解决这些持续已久的问题 towards something quite a bit more idyllic, 走向一个较为理想的状况 to a place where a conference like this is even conceivable. 像我们现在这样,齐聚一堂,和平讨论 And we know — we know — that there are right and wrong answers to how to move in this space. 我们知...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(4)

And so therefore whatever cultural variation there is in how human beings flourish 于是不管有多少不同文化对人类的幸福有多少不同想法 can, at least in principle, be understood in the context of a maturing science of the mind — neuroscience, psychology, etc. 都可以原则性地以成熟的闹内科学作为理解的办法,神经科学、心理学等等 So, what I'm arguing is that value's red...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(8)

Now, it is the position, generally speaking, of our intellectual community that while we may not like this, 普遍来说,我们的学术界是这样想的,虽然我们不喜欢这样 we might think of this as "wrong" in Boston or Palo Alto, 我们觉得这样是错误的,在波士顿或帕羅奧多 who are we to say that the proud denizens of an ancient culture 但我们怎么能说这些古老文化的骄傲后裔 are wr...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题

I'm going to speak today about the relationship between science and human values. 今日我要讨论科学和人类价值观之间的关系 Now, it's generally understood that questions of morality — questions of good and evil and right and wrong — 我们一般认为有关道德问题,善恶对错的概念 are questions about which science officially has no opinion. 是科学所不能解决和参与讨...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(2)

And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, 如果和昆虫做比较,我们比较关心我们自己的物种 it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential happiness and suffering. 那是因为我们认为我们比昆虫能感受到更大程度的快乐或痛苦 Now, the crucial thing to notice here is that this is a factual claim: ...

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TED演讲之寻找真理:科学可以回答道德问题(6)

Now, many of you might worry that the notion of well-being is truly undefined, 或许在你们之中,有许多人会担心这所谓的幸福该如何界定 and seemingly perpetually open to be re-construed. 这似乎没有一定的标准 And so, how therefore can there be an objective notion of well-being? 而且,怎么可能有一种完全客观的人身幸福的标准存在呢? Well, consider by analogy, the concept of physical...

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智慧人生篇章 (44)左手利益,右手道德

It was Bob Diamond, recently of Barclays, who defined business culture as “how people behave when no one is watching.” Speaking in a lecture sponsored by the Today programme last year, he declared that business corporations like Barclays had to learn how to be better citizens. Leaving on one side the irony of all this, what is remarkable is not that he said it, ...

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