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思想家罗素留给世人的两个忠告

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思想家罗素留给世人的两个忠告摘要: 大思想家罗素在1959年接受采访时被问到:“如果这段影片千年后被发现,你会对后人留下怎样的感悟?”罗素提到了2个忠告:1. 关于智慧:永远只看事实。2. 关于道德:爱是明智的,恨是...

大思想家罗素在1959年接受采访时被问到:“如果这段影片千年后被发现,你会对后人留下怎样的感悟?”

罗素提到了2个忠告:

1. 关于智慧:永远只看事实。

2. 关于道德:爱是明智的,恨是愚蠢的。

我想强调的只有问题,一个是理智层面,一个是道德层面:

I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral:

在理智层面我的建议是:当你在做任何具体研究或哲学思考时,一定要问问自己:事实到底是什么,事实所支持的真相又是什么?专注于事实,并且只能专注于事实,永远不要让被自己主观臆想的观念所左右,或者仅仅为了获得更好的社交目的而妥协自己的信念。关于理智层面,这就是我想提醒各位的。

The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed, but look only and solely at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I should wish to say.

道德的问题其实非常简单。我始终认为:爱是明智的,恨是愚蠢的。世界越来越紧密联系(那是1959年,现在有了互联网集密度在无限加强),我们必须学会容忍彼此。我们必须接受这样的事实:有些人就是会说一些我们不喜欢听的话。只有这样,我们才能够一起生活,如果我们要和平共处,而非同归于尽,我们就必须学会宽容和容忍,这对于人类生命在这个星球上的延续至关重要。

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say: Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way, and if we are to live together and not die together we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

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