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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生:随笔·摘录 30

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 哲学 · 心性 · 行动

Whilst thus the world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example,--to gratify the senses, we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character. The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless; to get a _one end_, without an _other end_. The soul says, Eat; the body would feast. The soul says, The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul; the body would join the flesh only. The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue; the body would have the power over things to its own ends.

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定位:Excerpt 30 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

世界本是一个整体,拒绝被拆开,可我们偏要局部地行动,切割、占有。比如为了满足感官,就把感官的快乐从品格的需要里割出来。人的聪明一直用在解决同一个问题上:怎样把感官的甜、强、亮,从道德的甜、深、美里剥离;也就是怎样切下薄薄一层表面,却假装它没有底;只要一头,不要另一头。灵魂说“吃”,身体却要盛宴;灵魂说男女应成一肉一灵,身体只愿合肉;灵魂说为美德的目的掌管万物,身体却要凭自己的目的抓权。

上下文

爱默生《随笔集》中批评人把感官享乐与道德责任割裂的倾向。

健康板块的原文与白话解读仅供阅读学习,不构成医疗建议。

今日一问

你今天有没有只要甜头、不担后果的“切表面”行为?

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