Well, I think if we're doing metaphysics, as opposed to psychology--Psychologically, we understand why losing weight might make a real difference as to how you feel about yourself.

我认为我这在讨论形而上学，而非心学 从心学角度来看，我为何减轻体重会使你觉得自己与以往有所不同。

And then you'd have all these metaphysical conundrums.

随即你便会陷入一堆形而上学的谜团中去。

I graduated from Rose Hill up in the Bronx with a focus on metaphysics.

我毕业于布朗克斯区的玫瑰山，主修形而上学。

Yes, I asked you: Which word means a belief that physical possessions are the most important thing in life? Is it a) metaphysics, b) materialism or c) existentialism?

的，我的问题：以下哪个单词的意思相信物质财富生活中最重要的东西？a) metaphysics? （形而上学） b) materialism（唯物主义）? 还c) existentialism（存在主义）?

Metaphysical Desires are our longing for identity - what objects can say about us.

形而上学欲望我对身份的渴望——物体能告诉我什么。

Each civilisation, from the ancient Chinese, Egyptians and Greeks, to the medieval Islamic world and Renaissance Europe, have added their wisdom and findings to this form of science, art, or metaphysics.

非洲和欧洲的各个地区分别发展开来。从古代中国人，埃及人和希腊人到中世纪的伊斯兰世界和欧洲复兴时期的每个文明， 都在这种形式的科学，艺术或形而上学中添加了自己的智慧和发现。

No one, not even the leading experts know everything, every subject from metaphysics to history is far too complicated to master, especially in a short amount of time.

没有人，即便顶尖的专家也不所不知的，从形而上学到历史，每一门学科都复杂的难以短时掌握。

To him, the discussion of metaphysics was limited by technical philosophical language, one that, as he later admitted, he was not able to transcend in Being and Time despite his already highly poetic style of writing.

对他来说，关于形而上学的讨论受到专业哲学语言的限制，正如他后来承认的那样，尽管他的写作风格已经非常诗意，但他法在《存在与时间》中超越这一点。

And a few years later, Kant wrote " the Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals" which we read in this course.

几年后，康德编著了《道德形而上学的基础》，这也本课程的必读书。

In this image, one artist used colour to illustrate nothing less than the metaphysics of the universe.

在这幅中 一位艺术家用颜色诠释了宇宙的形而上学。

First half of the class, metaphysics; second half of the class, value theory.

前半学期 形而上学后半学期 价值论。

This paved the way for the development of scientific thinking represented by Aristotle and the metaphysical philosophical system.

这为以亚里士多德和形而上学哲学体系为代表的科学思维的发展铺平了道路。

In other words, you want to please your metaphysical desire.

换句话说，你想满足你的形而上学欲望。

So there's metaphysical work to be done here by anybody who's at least interested in getting this theory of identity worked out properly.

因此这里有一个形而上学的问题亟待那些对同一性论感兴趣的人来决。

And then, we might worry about what's the relevant metaphysical glue for cars.

我可能又会想那汽车的形而上学的粘合剂又什么呢。

It seems to violate one of the fundamental metaphysical things about how people work.

这似乎又违背了一项有关人的形而上学的基本观点。

But if subtleties and sophisms composed the greater part of the metaphysics or pneumatics of the schools, they composed the whole of this cobweb science of ontology, which was likewise sometimes called metaphysics.

但，如果说微妙和诡辩构成了形而上学或流派的风力学的大部分，那么它就构成了整个本体论的蛛网科学，它有时也被称为形而上学。

And it had no truck with metaphysics of any kind.

而且它不买任何类型的形而上学的账。

Now, it sounds like a metaphysical idea, or a mystical idea even, but it's not.

现在，这听起来像一个形而上学的想法，甚至一个神秘的想法，但事实并非如此。

Not in these spiritual, metaphysical, meet-your-maker sense.

不在这些精神的、形而上学的、满足你的制造者的意义上。