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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What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

我所做的是写关于关心正义的女性的故事。她们是思考对与错,什么是合法与非法,什么是道德与不道德,道德与不道德的女性。

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。

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

我们应该认为我们是一棵树的叶子,而这棵树就是全人类。我们的生活不能没有其他人,没有树。

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

我认为我们是非常复杂的,我们有能力做各种各样的事情,而电影并没有反映这一点。

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

一个行为没有任何道德品质,除非它被从几个同样可能的行为中挑选出来。

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

我不知道我的发型是否反映了这一点,但我是一个喜欢改变的人。

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

我们的第一直觉是真实的。