And we need to ask in the case of higher or worthier pleasures are there theories of the good life that can provide independent moral standards for the worth of pleasures?

我们要问，就更高的或更有价值的快乐而言,是否存在“良善生活“的理论,能为快乐的价值,提供独立的道德标准？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Is this really tolerance ? or is it rather a form of moral decay that has simply decided to abandon the search for truth ? and standards of judgment?

这真的是容忍吗,还只是另一种形式的道德沦丧,只不过是决定,放弃找寻真理,和判断的标准？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

It should not be limited or constrained by any transcendent standards or moral laws that do not derive from politics itself, whether a law of God or some kind of transcendent moral order or code.

它不可以被任何超验的准则或道德条律所,限制和束缚，因为那些并非源自于,政治本身，无论那是上帝的法则，还是,某种超验的道德命令或准则。

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It is precisely he believes this latitude that makes political communities not only sites of agreement over shared standards but also as he says sites of moral contestation over justice and injustice.

正是这种,他认为的转圜,使政治社群,不只是共享标准合意的所在,更是如他所言,公正与不公之,道德争论的所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选