充满智慧、幽默的哈佛大学公开课-第11讲服从你的动机(2)

It wasn"t until he was 57 that he published his first major work. But, it was worth the wait, the book was the "Critique of Pure Reason", perhaps the most important work in all of modern philosophy.
直到57岁他才出版了第一本重要著作。但等待是值得的，这本书就是《纯粹理性批判》，这或许是现代哲学里最重要的一本著作。
And a few years later, Kant wrote "the Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals" which we read in this course. I want to acknowledge even before we start that Kant is a difficult thinker but it"s important to try to figure out what he"s saying.
几年后，康德编著了《道德形而上学的基础》，这也是本课程的必读书。开始上课之前我必须先承认康德是位很难理解的思想家，但理解他的思想非常重要。
Because what—what this book is about is, well, it"s about what the supreme principle of morality is, number one, and it also—it gives us an account, one of the most powerful accounts we have, of what freedom really is. So, let me start today.
因为他书中所讲的首先是道德的最高原则究竟是什么，并向我们解释了，这也是我们所知最有力的解释，自由到底是什么。好了，今天的课程开始。
Kant rejects utilitarianism. He thinks that the individual person, all human beings, have a certain dignity that commands our respect.