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。

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

有什么职务比教书更有责任,更需要资格,因此应该比教书更光荣呢?

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

以好奇心为主要动力的生物更喜欢积累事实,而不是偶尔停下来反思这些事实。

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

一个男人和他的妻子之间,除了爱,没有什么可以支配。权柄是给孩童和仆人的,却不是不可爱的。

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。

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

我们的第一直觉是真实的。