'Conscience' is a noun that refers to moral principles.

“Conscience”是一个名词，指的是道德原则。

And let's consider what those moral principles look like.

我们来细想下这些道德原则都是怎样的。

If we define unscrupulous, it means having or showing no moral principles.

如果我们定义“unscrupulous”（无道德原则的），它意味着没有或表现出没有道德原则。

They were a group of serious, religious people, advocating highly religious and moral principles.

在美国的第一批居民中有很多就是清教徒，他们有着严格的宗教信仰和道德准则。

He didn't fire until I was in immediate danger though, so strong moral principle.

非万不得已他不开火，道德信念极强。

Admittedly, education at school carries various virtues and serves to instill knowledge as well as moral principles in pupils.

诚然，学校的教育教授学生品德和知识，同样也教授小学生道德准则。

We're going to explore in the days and weeks to come the contrast between consequentialist and categorical moral principles.

接下来的几天到几周内，我们将探讨结果主义与绝对主义道德原则的差别。

The golden rule is a moral principle, which states that you should treat others the way you want to be treated yourself.

金规则是一项道德原则，它指出你应该以你希望自己被对待的方式对待他人。

To moral principles it added practical considerations.

除了道德原则外，它还增加了实际考虑因素。

It was more on moral principle, I would say.

我想说，这更多的是道德原则。

We don't know whether this was because he didn't want to take the chance or because he believed in categorical moral principles.

不知道他是因为不愿意冒这个险呢，还是因为他信奉绝对主义道德原则。

And, yeah, it was about a moral principle more than a return on investment.

是的，这更多的是道德原则，而不是投资回报。

And lastly, seemingly the strongest method for asserting  moral principles is through science and reason.

最后，维护道德原则最有力的方法似乎是通过科学和理性。

Therefore they fail to understand, as I do, that this is the only working moral principle.

因此，他们无法像我一样理解这是唯一有效的道德原则。

He didn't fire until I was in immediate danger, though, so strong moral principles.

说明他道德信念极强，你找的这人或许曾在军队服役。

Quincy had always been right, for Quincy represented a moral principle — the principle of resistance to Boston.

昆西一直是对的， 因为昆西代表了一种道德原则——抵抗波士顿的原则。

" Ethics" relates to the application of those moral principles to perhaps specific situations, determining whether you should do something or not do something.

“道德” 涉及将这些道德原则应用于特定情况，决定你是否应该做某事或不做某事。

Arguably, we only can and do determine moral  principles through the following methods: spiritual or religious doctrines,   emotional responses, and science and reason.

可以说，我们只能而且确实通过以下方法来确定道德原则：精神或宗教教义、情感反应以及科学和理性。

When deriving moral principles from spiritual or  religious sources, the problem is of course the sources in which these spiritual or religious  sources themselves came from.

当从精神或宗教来源中得出道德原则时，问题当然在于这些精神或宗教来源本身来自哪里。

However, having said that, ethics could also refer to those same moral principles that people use to determine whether something is right or wrong, just or unjust.

然而，话虽如此，道德也可以指人们用来确定某事是对还是错，正义或不正义的那些相同的道德原则。