The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

  • -- Sam Harris 山姆·哈里斯

道德科学是关于最大化心理和社会健康。真的没有比这更刺激的了。

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We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

我们不讨论作为个体的人的解剖、生理和心理特征;但我们感兴趣的是,在不同地理区域和不同社会阶层的男性群体中,这些特征的多样性。

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

监管一切是糟糕的政策……在那里,事情可以更好地自我调节,通过私人努力可以得到更好的促进;但是,不去管那些只能通过干预社会权力来推动的事情,同样是糟糕的政策。

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

道德家是这样的人:当人们还觉得自己很自私,而他的努力总是毫无结果时,他却告诉人们应该无私。

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

道德是事物的基础,真理是一切道德的实质。