Name: 耶穌和蘇格拉底是如何以同樣的方式教學的 (How Jesus and Socrates taught the same way)
Uploaded: 2025-07-29T18:41:39.000Z
Duration: 3 min 14 s

Many contemporary philosophers shy away from using religious texts as philosophical sources of evidence or inspiration.

許多當代哲學家都羞於將宗教經文作為哲學的證據或靈感來源。

They think that because these traditions believe that the texts are inspired by God, they're not capable of interpretation and debate.

他們認為，因為這些傳統相信經文是上帝的啟示，所以就不能進行解釋和辯論。

The whole tradition of Jewish and Christian ethics is a tradition of debate.

猶太教和基督教倫理的整個傳統就是辯論的傳統。

You have Jesus or Muhammad or Moses engaged in asking a philosophical question to followers that followers are meant to wrestle with and think about.

耶穌、穆罕默德或摩西向追隨者們提出了一個哲學問題，而追隨者們應該與這個問題進行搏鬥和思考。

And these kinds of texts are asking philosophical questions that many people find profoundly interesting.

這些文本提出的哲學問題讓許多人深感興趣。

And in fact, one of the best ways to engage with that idea and to live out that teaching is to engage with the debate.

而事實上，參與辯論是踐行這一理念和教學的最佳方式之一。

There really shouldn't be this sharp division between quote-unquote secular philosophical texts and quote-unquote religious philosophical texts.

世俗哲學文本和宗教哲學文本之間確實不應該有這種截然的劃分。

All of these texts ask philosophical questions and philosophy doesn't know those boundaries.

所有這些文本都提出了哲學問題，而哲學是沒有界限的。

There are plenty of instances in the Bible that are in exactly the same genre as the which are the bedrock of how we have taught philosophy for 2400 years.

聖經》中有大量與《聖經》體裁完全相同的例子，而《聖經》正是我們 2400 年來教授哲學的基石。

The Republic opens with Socrates on the road taking a walk.

共和國》的開篇是蘇格拉底在路上散步。

He runs into his cousins and his cousins start asking him questions about what it really means to be a just person.

他遇到了自己的表兄弟，表兄弟們開始向他提問，問他做一個公正的人到底意味著什麼。

And that sets off the whole rest of the book, which gets into so many really deep and important philosophical questions about how we should design society and how we should educate young people.

這引發了整本書的其他部分，書中涉及了許多非常深刻而重要的哲學問題，比如我們應該如何設計社會，我們應該如何教育年輕人。

These really profound questions come from that simple question.

這些真正深刻的問題都來自這個簡單的問題。

We see the same dynamic with Jesus and his disciples, especially in the parables.

我們在耶穌和他的門徒身上看到了同樣的動態，尤其是在比喻中。

There are people who are curious about how they should be living their lives.

有些人對自己應該如何生活充滿好奇。

That curiosity, that kind of conversation.

This is how we cultivate our inner lives.

這就是我們培養內心生活的方式。

This kind of debate, this kind of thinking, it's not meant to turn you off to the ideas in the tradition, but quite the contrary, it's meant to make you really, really interested in understanding what these moral traditions ask of you.

這種辯論，這種思考，並不是要讓你對傳統中的思想置之不理，恰恰相反，它是要讓你對理解這些道德傳統對你的要求產生真正的、真正的興趣。

Philosophy cuts across secular and religious genres.

It's an invitation for us to be a part of a discussion where that discussion itself is something that, frankly, we're meant to enjoy.

這是邀請我們參與討論，坦率地說，討論本身就是我們應該享受的東西。

It's meant to help us answer really deep questions that are hard to wrestle with if we don't have philosophical interlocutors.

它旨在幫助我們回答真正深奧的問題，如果我們沒有哲學對話者，就很難解決這些問題。

And in the process of having the debate and discussion, we're promised that we're going to uncover some really important philosophical truths that we can use to live our lives.

在辯論和討論的過程中，我們被承諾會發現一些非常重要的哲學真理，我們可以用這些真理來指導我們的生活。