For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.

对于柏拉图，哲学的首要任务，是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。

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In another situation, you could be at a casual lunch setting with friends, eating pizza.

在另一种情况中，你可能正与朋友一起吃一顿便饭，你们吃的是披萨。

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We used iterative deletion in a relatively abstract setting, or not abstract, rather a play setting last time in which were choosing numbers.

我们在相对抽象的背景下探讨迭代剔除,其实也没那么抽象,比如上一讲,我们做的选数字的游戏

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Instead of setting up a central bank in the United States as was done commonly in other countries the United States instead created twelve banks; they're the twelve Federal Reserve Banks.

与在很多国家设立中央银行,不同的是,在美国,建立了十二个银行；,它们是十二个联邦储备金银行。

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This then leads to a very different discussion because A play is not a piece of text. A play is a living thing That is meant to be performed by actors in a particular setting. Different actors with different directors interpret the words of Shakespeare to the best. We can construct those words differently.

这引起一场很不同的讨论,因为一部戏剧不是一篇文章，而是活物,是要被演员在特定的场景下,表演出来的，不同的演员,和导演尽可能去诠释莎士比亚的文字,我们可以以不同方式建构这些文字。

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Freud lives on both in a clinical setting and in the university but Freud at Yale, for instance, is much more likely to be found in the history department or the literature department than in the psychology department.

虽然在临床和大学中,都会有涉及到弗洛伊德的理论,但是，以耶鲁为例，你更可能在历史系或是文学系,听到弗洛伊德的理论,而不是在心理学系。

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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So you can also use this pattern in a business setting.

所以你也可以在商务的场合里使用。

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How could you develop an argument in which a thought like that might actually seem to work? After all, Foucault--setting himself aside, he doesn't mention himself--Foucault very much admires certain writers.

你如何为这样一个看起来可能的想法,去辩护呢？毕竟，福柯--不谈他自己，他从不提到自己-福柯很钦佩一些作家。

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Or in another social setting, say you're with a friend.

在另一种情况下，假如你跟一个朋友在一起。

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I asked that as someone who's concerned with religious life in a university setting.

我问这个问题，因为有些学生,很关注大学中的宗教生活。

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In another situation, a social setting.

在另一种情况下，一个社交情形。

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So for those people who took Intro Economics, which is most of you, this is a game, this a setting in which we have constant marginal costs.

大多数学过经济学导论的同学都知道,这里的边际成本是一个常数

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For instance, when we deal with one another in a legal and a moral setting, we think in terms of free will and responsibility.

举个例子,当我们在一套法律和道德系统中,与其他人相处时,我们会从自由意志和责任的角度进行思考

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