I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

我希望我们能更明确地思考这个问题,而不是把我们的直觉当作道德的既定标准,而是对它进行反思,对道德问题这一事实持更开放的态度,思考我们应该怎么做。

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

所有的思想都必须直接或间接地通过某些特性,最终与直观联系起来,因此与我们联系起来,与感性联系起来,因为没有别的方法可以把一个对象给予我们。

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

一个人如果没有舒适的神话的帮助,就不能面对生活的危险,这人有一点软弱和可鄙。

Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

不要说事情。这段时间,你是什么东西一直站在你的面前,不停地打雷,所以我听不见你说什么相反的话。

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

既然我们不能对任何事情都了如指掌,我们就应该对所有事情都略知一二。

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

令人欣慰的是,世界上事物的不均衡似乎只是算术问题。

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

哲学家不应该试图逃避下定决心的责任。

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

如果你不反思,经验有什么好处?