TED演讲:无神论2.0(2)
I'm interested in the kind of constituency that thinks something along these lines: 我对有些情况非常感兴趣，有些人会说： that thinks, I can't believe in any of this stuff. 我完全不相信这些宗教 I can't believe in the doctri
TED演讲:无神论2.0(3)
And I'd like to run through a few of these today. 现在我想具体地解释一下 I'd like to kick off by looking at education. 先从教育说起 Now education is a field the secular world really believes in. 非宗教的人们十分相信学习、教
TED演讲:无神论2.0(4)
If you went to a top university -- let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge -- 如果你去顶尖学府，像是哈佛，牛津，或者剑桥 and you said, I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; 然后你
TED演讲:无神论2.0(5)
Well a sermon wants to change your life and a lecture wants to give you a bit of information. 宗教里的传教想改变你的生活，而一个演讲只是给你一些信息资料 And I think we need to get back to that sermon tradition. 我觉得我
TED演讲:无神论2.0(6)
In the secular world we think, If an idea is important, I'll bump into it. I'll just come across it. 在非宗教世界里，我们觉得 我会毫无预兆就想到一个好主意，我是偶然想到的 Nonsense, says the religious world view. 宗教
TED演讲:无神论2.0(7)
The other thing that religions know is we're not just brains, we are also bodies. 宗教还知道我们人类不仅仅有智慧，我们还有躯体 And when they teach us a lesson, they do it via the body. 所以他们通过身体来教会我们道理
TED演讲:无神论2.0(8)
The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world 在当代世界有两个特别糟糕的想法 that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from art: 他们抑制了我们在艺术里获得力量的本领 The first idea is that art should
TED演讲:无神论2.0(9)
My view is that museums should take a leaf out of the book of religions. 我觉得艺术馆应该向宗教学习 And they should make sure that when you walk into a museum -- if I was a museum curator, 艺术馆应该确保，当游客走进馆内时候
TED演讲:无神论2.0(10)
We recognize them in relation to corporations. 我们还认同他们像个企业 And corporations are very like religions in many ways, except they're right down at the bottom of the pyramid of needs. 公司企业和宗教有些相似之处，不过企
TED演讲:无神论2.0(11)
This is actually a courageous talk, 这真是一个无畏的演讲 because you're kind of setting up yourself in some ways to be ridiculed in some quarters. 在某些地方你似乎把自己当成了一个笑柄让大家嘲弄啊 You can get shot by
TED演讲:无神论2.0(12)
I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged. 我觉得世俗的世界是有许多缺点的，但是那些缺点是可以被弥补的 It's not as though, as I try to suggest, 但这不是说 it's not as though e
TED演讲:无神论2.0(13)
No, we need to be polite about differences. 不一定，我们只是需要礼貌地对待另一方 Politeness is a much-overlooked virtue. It's seen as hypocrisy. 有时候礼貌都被我们忽视了。有时候我们觉得那是虚伪 But we need to
TED演讲:科学可以回答道德问题
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 --
TED演讲:科学可以回答道德问题(2)
And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, 如果和昆虫做比较，我们比较关心我们自己的物种 it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential happiness and
TED演讲:科学可以回答道德问题(3)
And we know that it's possible to move along this continuum 我们知道我们可以解决这些持续已久的问题 towards something quite a bit more idyllic, 走向一个较为理想的状况 to a place where a conference like this is even concei
