Yet the great English writer's understanding of human nature is timeless.
VOA: special.2011.06.06
It has every relevance to psychology: Do we perceive reality, human nature as constrained or unconstrained will ultimately affect our psychology.
它与心理学息息相关:,我们认识了现实吗,对人类本性执不同观点,最终将影响我们心理。
And in many ways, we can understand human intellectual history just based on this idea: ? should we accept human nature?
在很多方面,我们能理解人类智力发展历史,仅仅基于这个观点:,应不应该接受人类本性?
Buchanan believes, It's human nature to want more meat and dairy, and that will be very difficult to change.
VOA: standard.2010.06.04
He begins the work, you remember, with an account of human nature, account of human psychology, as a product of sense and experience.
他的书开始于,关于人性的解释,关于人类心理的解释,作为理性和经验的产物。
but at the end of the day it is what Martin Scorcese does best and that is portraying something about humanity and human nature and who we are as people."
VOA: standard.2010.02.27
What that means ultimately is that evil lacks inevitability, Depending on your theory of human nature, I suppose, And it also means that Evil lies within the realm of human responsibility and control.
它最终要表达的是邪恶并非不可避免的,它是依你的人性论而定,我想,它还说明,邪恶就是人类的责任与控制力领域。
She says her hope comes from her belief in four things: the human brain,the human spirit, nature's strength and the energy of young people.
VOA: special.2009.11.18
And this is interesting because this suggests that to some extent the ability to use and understand and learn language is part of human nature.
这一点很有意思,因为这表明,从某种程度上来说,语言的使用,理解以及学习能力,是人类本性的一部分
Allegations left uninvestigated with regard to crimes of this nature, violations of human rights, will only serve to feed resentment, bitterness,anger,frustration."
VOA: standard.2009.10.23
They understand something about human nature and how human nature interacts with our institutions.
他们深谙人性,明白我们的金融机构如何与之互动
Aristotle went on to say that the justice needed to control this dark side of human nature can be found only in a well ordered society of free people who govern themselves, and the only one that he knew was the Polis of the Greeks.
亚里士多德还说过,正义需要用来,控制人性的丑恶面,只有在公民自治的秩序井然的,社会里才能找得到正义,他所知道的这样的社会就是希腊城邦
Because if you think about it, suicide doesn't change the fundamental nature of the human condition, life followed by death.
因为如果你考虑一下,自杀没有改变人类处境的基本本质,生后即是死。
He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.
他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等
It actually, it's been shown, seems to foreshadow the political philosophy of Milton's much younger contemporary, John Locke -- the notion that nature demands that every human individual has just enough, is given just enough to be self-sufficient.
事实上这一论点似乎提前预兆了,比弥尔顿年轻许多的同代人,他们的政治哲学,约翰·洛克--他认为自然要求,每个自然人拥有足够自己使用的,每个人只得到足够自给的就够了。
And at the same time, accepting the painful emotions are as much part of human nature as the wonderful emotions.
与此同时,也认同痛苦的情绪,和美好的情绪一样都是人性的组成。
Or is human nature flawed maybe something we don't like ? but we need to accept it and work with it?
还是尽管我们不喜欢人性中的缺陷,也必须接受它?
We even have entire disciplines like economics and psychology and I dare even say modern political science that reinforced this view of human nature.
看吧,我们有一整套经济学,和心理学的理论服务于个人,而且我敢说,在现代政治科学上,更是强调了人的个体特性。
This is the natural condition, the state of nature, the state of war that Hobbes attributes to, again, the fundamental fact of human nature.
这是自然的状态,霍布斯把战争状态归因于,人类的基本天性。
By building certain political institutions that would channel the flawed, imperfect human nature toward the good.
通过建立某种政治机构,引导有缺陷的,不完美的人性向好的方面发展。
The study of human language has been the battleground over different theories of human nature.
人类语言的研究,是各种人性理论的重要领域
If there's no human nature, then there's no sense in which one group of humans by dint of their race or their sex could be better than another group.
如果不存在人性,那么一群人因种族或性别,优于另一群的人的说法,便纯属无稽之谈。
And the most important has to do with the nature of the act that leads to the transformation of the human characters.
最重要的一点,是人类听从欲望的驱使,导致了本性的变化。
You always have to get worried in history when people start talking about how human beings or human behavior is rooted in nature.
当你了解那段历史中的人们在讨论,某些人类或者人类行为是天性使然时,你会为此担忧
On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.
一方面,乐观主义者可能说,“就算我们把另外的相互影响,就算把负面的相互影响算进去,人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。
In other words, my belief-- and I am going to back that up with research today and for the next semester-- is human nature is fixed.
换言之,那是我相信的观点-,我会用三个研究加以证明,从今天开始,直到下个学期-,人类本性是固有的。
He is the intellectual who enjoys bringing, you might say, the harsh and unremitting facts about human nature to light, who enjoys dispelling illusions and pretty beliefs.
他是一位学者,乐于将人性残酷、,不得宽恕的真实面,摊在阳光下来检视,他更乐于为人破解假想及天真的信念。
So, in general, there is some support, at least at a very broad level, for the claim that language is in some sense part of human nature.
总的来说,语言在某种意义上,是人类本性一部分的这个观点,至少在一般性水平上,得到了一些支持
Is human nature flawed and therefore needs to be perfected?
是人性有缺陷,因此需要进一步完善吗?
They take this makeshift communication system developed by adults and, again, they turn it into a full-blown language, suggesting that to some extent it's part of our human nature to create languages.
他们继承了成人发展出来的临时交流系统,将这个临时交流系统,再次发展成一种成熟的语言,这表明从某种程度上来说,创造语言是我们人类本性的一部分
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