You know, yes, yes, you know, we care about you, but you have to subsume your interest, your personal interest.

是的，是的，你懂的，我们关注你，但你必须让个人利益服从集体利益。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The type of individual he tried to create, careful, self-interested, risk averse, this has become ? the dominant ethos of our civilization, has it not?

因为他笔下的个人主义，如强调个体利益，风险回避等,已经成为我们文明的主导精神，不是吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

One ought to be interested and to take action on behalf of the polis.

个人应当服从集体的利益,并代表集体的利益行事

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Well, that's not the way it is with the modern world and that's not the way it comes out of the enlightenment, the individual is the ultimate.

这和现代世界的观点不同,和启蒙时期的思想成就不同,他们认为个人利益至上

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.

正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选