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几个世纪来，科学被排拒在善恶对错的问题以外。Sam Harris提出科学不但可以，更应当成为道德问题的准则，为人类设立新人道价值，带领我们走向真正的幸福生活。
adj. 道德的，伦理的，民族的
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- 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论的
- It's thought that science can help us get what we value,
- 人们认为科学可以帮助我们得到我们所想要的
- but it can never tell us what we ought to value.
- 却永远无法告诉我们什么是重要的
- And, consequently, most people -- I think most people probably here
- 于是大部分的人，甚至今日坐在这里的各位
- think that science will never answer the most important questions in human life:
- 认为科学永远无法回答人类生命中的重要问题
- questions like, "What is worth living for?"
- 像是”我们为了什么活着？“
- "What is worth dying for?"
- ”我们应该为什么牺牲？“
- "What constitutes a good life?"
- ”什么样的生活，是一个幸福的生活？“
- So, I'm going to argue that this is an illusion that the separation between science and human values is an illusion
- 我想告诉大家，把科学和人类价值观做分隔是一种人为假象
- and actually quite a dangerous one at this point in human history.
- 是一个非常危险的假象，尤其是在我们的今日社会
- Now, it's often said that science cannot give us a foundation for morality and human values,
- 人们常说科学不能作为道德和价值观的基础
- because science deals with facts, and facts and values seem to belong to different spheres.
- 因为科学讲求实证，而事实和价值似乎是两种不同层次的事
- It's often thought that there's no description of the way the world is that can tell us how the world ought to be.
- 人们认为，就算把世界的模样描绘出来，也不能带我们走到乌托邦
- But I think this is quite clearly untrue.
- 但我认为这很明显是错误的
- Values are a certain kind of fact.
- 价值自然是一种实证
- They are facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
- 是人类如何可以获得幸福生活的实证
- Why is it that we don't have ethical obligations toward rocks? Why don't we feel compassion for rocks?
- 为什么我们对石头没有任何道德要求？为什么我们对石头没有仁爱之情？
- It's because we don't think rocks can suffer.
- 因为我们不认为石头会受折磨
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| ethical | ['eθikəl] | |||
| consequently | ['kɔnsikwəntli] | |||
| description | [di'skripʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| compassion | [kəm'pæʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| foundation | [faun'deiʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| certain | ['sə:tn] | |||
| morality | [mə'ræliti] | |||
| conscious | ['kɔnʃəs] | 联想记忆 | ||
| illusion | [i'lu:ʒən] | 联想记忆 |
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