Name: 【TED】阿蘭-德波頓:無神論2.0 (Alain de Botton) (【TED】Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 (Atheism 2.0 | Alain de Botton))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:19:43.000Z
Duration: 19 min 21 s

One of the most common ways of dividing the world

譯者: Sandy Li 審譯者: Shelley Krishna R. TSANG

區分世人，其中一種最常見的做法

即「有神論者」和「無神論者」

These people, many of whom have lived in North Oxford,

這些無神論者，當中有許多居於牛津北部

to dismiss the whole of religion that way.

And it's as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

可以說，這是一種嶄新的無神論

Well it starts from a very basic premise:

Of course, there are no deities or supernatural spirits

而且也沒有甚麼聖靈，或超自然的神明

Now let's move on; that's not the end of the story,

I'm interested in the kind of constituency

that thinks, "I can't believe in any of this stuff.

But," a very important but, "I love Christmas carols.

「可是」這個心理轉折很重要，「我喜歡聖誕歌」

I really like turning the pages of the Old Testament."

you know the kind of thing I'm talking about --

people who are attracted to the ritualistic side,

the moralistic, communal side of religion,

有些人會被宗教的某部份吸引，比如是儀式

宗教中的倫理，或是裡面普世共享的東西

Until now, these people have faced a rather unpleasant choice.

It's almost as though either you accept the doctrine

直到目前為止，他們總是陷入兩難

and then you can have all the nice stuff,

you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland

要麼，你在否定宗教教條的同時

便讓自己置身空茫的精神世界裡

I don't think we have to make that choice.

但我不認為我們一定要非此即彼

and I'm being both very respectful and completely impious --

在非常尊重，但並不崇拜宗教的前提下

there's nothing wrong with picking and mixing,

with taking out the best sides of religion.

大可萃取並融和宗教裡美好的事物

of going through religions and saying, "What here could we use?"

檢視宗教的內容，並思考「這裡面有甚麼值得借鏡的？」

We have secularized badly, I would argue.

我認為，這個社會的去宗教化，做得並不高明

into areas of life that are not going too well.

And I'd like to run through a few of these today.

I'd like to kick off by looking at education.

When we think about how we're going to make the world a better place,

we think education; that's where we put a lot of money.

Education is going to give us, not only commercial skills, industrial skills,

it's also going to make us better people.

教育所能作的，不只是授與各項職業技能

You know the kind of thing a commencement address is, and graduation ceremonies,

that education, the process of education -- particularly higher education --

will make us into nobler and better human beings.

started sliding down very, very sharply, and people panicked.

They asked themselves the following question.

愈來愈少，流失得很快，大家開始不安

They said, where are people going to find the morality,

and where are they going to find sources of consolation?

And influential voices came up with one answer.

for guidance, for consolation, for morality.

the dialogues of Plato, the novels of Jane Austen.

柏拉圖《對話錄》和奧斯汀的小說裡

that we might previously have found in the Gospel of Saint John.

Now I think that's a very beautiful idea and a very true idea.

許多我們曾經在約翰福音裡找到的真理