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 s
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 obviou
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 civilize
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 a
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 wit
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
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 m
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
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, a
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
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.
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 -
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 Alt
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 an
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 potent
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
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 tha
