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.

我认为我们这是在讨论学，非心理学 从心理学角度来看，我们理解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?

是的，我的问题是：以下哪个单词的意思是相信物质财富是生活中最重要的东西？是a) metaphysics? （学） b) materialism（唯物主义）? 还是c) existentialism（存在主义）?

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

学欲望是我们对身份的渴望——物体能告诉我们什么。

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.

非洲欧洲的各个地区分别发展开来。从古代中国，埃希腊到中世纪的伊斯兰世界欧洲复兴时期的每个文明， 都在这种式的科学，艺术或学中添加了自己的智慧发现。

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，即便顶尖的专家也不是无所不知的，从学到历史，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，但他无法在《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《道德学的基础》，这也是本课程的必读书。

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学。

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

前半学期 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.

因此这里有一个学的问题亟待那些对同一性理论感兴趣的们来解决。

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

我们可能又会想那汽车的学的粘合剂又是什么呢。

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的学的基本观点。

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.

但是，如果说微妙诡辩构成了学或流派的风力学的大部分，那么它们就构成了整个本体论的蛛网科学，它有时也被称为学。

And it had no truck with metaphysics of any kind.

且它不买任何类型的学的账。

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

现在，这听起来像是一个学的想法，甚至是一个神秘的想法，但事实并非如此。

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

不是在这些精神的、学的、满足你的制造者的意义。