But still, let me quickly point out why you could resist the argument from free will to the existence of a soul.

但我还是要简短地指出,为什么你们会拒不认同,从自由意志的角度来论证灵魂的存在

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So maybe that's why we need to believe in souls in order to explain free will.

或许我们需要相信灵魂的理由就是,为了便于解释自由意志

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I simply want to point out enough about the problem to help you see why I don't think free will is a slam-dunk for the soul.

我只是想尽可能地,把这个问题提出来,以帮助你们认识到,为什么我不认同自由意志是灵魂的制胜利器

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You need the soul in order to explain free will.

那就是我们需要灵魂来解释自由意志

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My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.

我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志

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It's got to be the case to prove that we've got a soul-- at least for this argument to work to prove that we've got a soul-- it's got to be the case that we've got free will.

必须要有事实证明我们有灵魂,至少是为了能够证明这个论证,人是有灵魂的,必须要有事实证明我们有自由意志

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As I say, there are philosophers who've argued that way, have denied that we have free will and if we do conclude that we don't actually have free will, then we no longer have this argument for the existence of a soul.

有哲学家按照这种思路,否定了人有自由意志,如果我们由此得出,人没有自由意志这个结论,那么这个论证也不再,支持灵魂存在这个说法

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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

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