Well, it was Kant who said it.

" 你不知道，这是康德说的。"

For example, I learned about Immanuel Kant and the categorical imperative.

比如，我了解到了康德，以及绝对命令。

What a comedown from the great tradition of philosophy from Aristotle to Kant!

从亚里士多德到康德，伟大的哲学传统是多么的堕落啊！

The Prussian philosopher Kant summed up its key message in the Latin phrase Sapere Aude: dare to know, to think for yourself.

普鲁士哲学家康德用拉丁短语 Sapere Aude 总结了启蒙运动的关键信息：敢于了解，为自己思考。

" And who did Kant agree with" ?

“康德同意谁”？

So Kant says, when we're about to do something we have to design a rule or a maxim that we could will to be universal.

康德说，当我们打算做某件事时，我们得设计一条规则或准则，把它一般化，套用到所有人身上。

And it sure felt like Aristotle would be a little annoyed, and it sure felt like Immanuel Kant would wave a disapproving finger at me.

我确信亚里斯多德会有点恼火，以及康德会对我摇摇手指表示不赞同。

" Kant believed that there are clear limits to what we can know. You could perhaps say that the mind's 'glasses' set these limits" .

“康德相信我们所能知道的东西有明确的限制。你或许可以说是头脑的‘眼镜’设定了这些限制”。

" But you started by saying that Kant wanted to preserve the basis for Christian faith" .

“但你一开始就说康德想要维护基督教信仰的基础”。

Kant also says, by the way, that you should treat people as ends in themselves, and not a means to an end, meaning, you shouldn't use people to get what you want.

顺道一提，康德也说，你应该要把人视为是最终结果，而非达成结果的手段，意即，你不该利用人来得到你想要的东西。

" Kant was the first of the philosophers we have heard about so far to have taught philosophy at a university. He was a professor of philosophy" .

“康德是迄今为止我们所听说的第一位在大学教授哲学的哲学家。他是一名哲学教授”。

" And even the law of causality – which Hume believed man could not experience – belongs to the mind, according to Kant" .

“根据康德的说法，甚至因果律——休谟认为人类无法体验——也属于心灵”。

" When you put the red glasses on, we demonstrated that according to Kant there are two elements that contribute to our knowledge of the world" .

“当你戴上红色眼镜时，我们证明了根据康德的观点，有两种元素有助于我们了解世界”。

" Nevertheless, from now on I intend to ignore all extraordinary phenomena such as sea serpents and the like. Let's sit here by the window while I tell you about Kant" .

“不过，从现在开始我打算忽略所有非凡的现象，例如海蛇之类的。让我们坐在窗边，我给你讲康德”。

" And that, Sophie, is precisely what Kant meant when he said that there are certain conditions governing the mind's operation which influence the way we experience the world" .

“而且，索菲，这正是康德所说的，有某些条件支配着思维的运作，这些条件会影响我们体验世界的方式”。

" Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative. By this he means that the moral law is 'categorical, ' or that it applies to all situations" .

“康德将道德法则表述为绝对命令。他的意思是，道德法则是‘绝对的’，或者说它适用于所有情况”。

" Kant formulates this 'categorical imperative' in several ways. First he says: Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal Law of Nature" .

“康德以多种方式阐述了这种‘绝对命令’。首先，他说：就好像你的行动准则将通过你的意志成为普遍的自然法则一样行动”。

" Maybe not. But Kant pointed out that a child's reason is not fully developed until it has had some sensory material to work with. It is altogether senseless to talk about an empty mind" .

“也许不是。但康德指出，孩子的理性只有在有了一些感官材料可以使用后才能得到充分发展。谈论头脑空虚是完全没有意义的”。

" In such weighty questions as to the nature of reality, Kant showed that there will always be two contrasting viewpoints that are equally likely or unlikely, depending on what our reason tells us" .

“在关于现实本质的这些重要问题中，康德表明，总会有两种截然不同的观点，它们的可能性相同或不太可能，这取决于我们的理性告诉我们的是什么”。

" For Hume it was neither our reason nor our experience that determined the difference between right and wrong. It was simply our sentiments. This was too tenuous a basis for Kant" .

“对于休谟来说，决定是非的区别既不是我们的理性也不是我们的经验。这只是我们的情感。这对康德来说太脆弱了”。