TED分享 --- 如何面对生活中的道德困境?
How to face the moral dilemmas in life? --- 如何面对生活中的道德困境?
We both were suddenly overcomewith this awgul feeling that there was something very bad and wrong about what we were doing, but we could not point what it was.
我们俩忽然被很糟糕的感觉笼罩:我们正在做的事情应该是有很恶劣并且错误的地方但是我们又指不出是什么地方。
Kant says, when we’re about to do something we have todesign a rule or a maxim that we could will to be universal. Meaning, we have to imagine, what if everyone did what we’re about to do, what would happen to the world?
康德说,我们打算做某件事的时候,我们得定制一个可以普适所有人的规则和准则,它的意思是,我们得去想象:假如所有人都做了我们打算去做的,会怎么样? 这个世界会发生什么?
You should treat people as in themselves, and not a means to an end, meaning, you shouldn’t use people to get what you want,
人是目的,而不是手段。它的意思是,你不能利用人得到你想要的
Aristotle says there’s certainqualities we should all have. Things like generosity and courage and friendliness and mildness. And he wants us to practice them every day. So that we not only have them we have them in the exact tight amount.
亚里士多德说,有一些品格是所有人都具有的。比如慷慨,勇气,友善以及温和。他希望我们每天都去练习这些品格, 这样我们不仅有这些品格还可以拥有恰到好处的分量
Utilitarians said that when we’re calculating the amount of happiness or pain we’ve created. We can’t just think about the one person we’re dealing with. We have to think about the fact that everybody in our society will now both know this happened and will fear that it could someday happen to them.
功利主义说:当我们在计算我们所创造的开心与痛苦时,我们不能只考虑正在面对的那个人,实际上,我们要考虑的是社会上的每个人都将会知道发生的事,并且忧心这样的事有一天会发生在自己身上
Understanding ethical theories is how we increase our chances of successat simply being human beings who have to negotiate with other human beings.
了解伦理理论增加了我们扮演一个必须和其他人类做协商的人类成功的机会
结尾感想
想起来一句“善有善报,恶有恶报”:当你行好事时,会有人因为你的行为受到帮助(善报),就叫善有善报,反之毅然,看着似乎就是在称述事实,但当我们受益不局限于个人,把视线扩大——当所有人都相互行善时,所有人都会受到善报——这就是美好了。
意外的加了一些哲学知识,判断某件事是否好,就思考如果多数人都来做,带来怎样的结果;学会“练习”自己美好的品格,注重自己的品格,不过多,不过少;
