Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: How we can face the future without fear, together
拉比強納森·薩克斯男爵: 我們如何一起無懼地面對未來
In a world violently polarized by extremists, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is proposing and advocating solutions to mounting religious intolerance. Full bio
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in the history of the West.
and divided societies.
以及分化的社會。
uncertainty and fear,
焦慮、不確定性、及恐懼。
almost faster than we can bear,
快到讓我們幾乎無法承受。
that it's going to change faster still.
世界仍然會繼續快速改變下去。
being in America
總統大選期間,
'I know I asked for ice --
(註:鐵達尼後來撞上冰山)
the future without fear?
into a culture and into an age
最簡單的方式,
so many different things --
some one, some none.
有些人獨尊一神,有些人不信神。
we talk about morality
new religious ritual we have created.
這個美好的新宗教儀式,
that what we worship in our time
在我們的這個時代,我們崇拜的
It's empowering. It's wonderful.
這樣很有自主權,這樣很美好。
we're social animals.
我們是社會動物,
of our evolutionary history
the choreography of altruism
利他主義的舞藝,
才能創造出靈性的善良,
and loyalty and love
and too little of the "we,"
太少的「我們」,
that Sherry Turkle of MIT
on the impact of social media
of safeguarding the future "you"
是強化未來的「我們」。
take the us of relationship.
比較私人的事,請見諒。
and Sartre and Camus.
沙特、卡繆很感興趣,
and thoroughly unpleasant to know,
認識我這個人是很不愉快的事。
and eight grandchildren later,
和八個孫子孫女之後,
I ever took in my life,
rather than broadcasting
almost entirely by people like us
whose prejudices, even,
with people with the same views as us,
和我們有相同觀點的人群當中,
those face-to-face encounters
面對面的接觸,
that we can disagree strongly
that the people not like us
or color are different from ours,
Have you seen the memorials?
你們曾看過紀念碑嗎?
Second Inaugural on the other.
一面是連任演講詞。
from his speeches.
in America you read memorials.
紀念碑是要閱讀的。
in London in Parliament Square
to David Lloyd George
(註:英文原文是三個字)
(註:他的英文名字是兩個字)
(註:只用英文的姓)
I'll tell you why the difference.
我來告訴你們為什麼:
a nation of wave after wave of immigrants,
一波又一波移民形成的國家,
you read on memorials
你會在紀念碑上讀到這故事,
in presidential inaugural addresses.
重覆聽到這故事。
wasn't a nation of immigrants,
which shouldn't have happened together.
we've stopped telling this story
than it's ever been before.
and your identity is strong,
且你的身份很強而有力時,
and dispersed and exiled for 2,000 years.
分散於各地且被放逐了兩千年,
and we taught it to our children
將這個故事教給我們的孩子,
bread of affliction
to telling our story,
share collective responsibility
really are and should be.
is elect this strong leader
這位強而有力的領導者,
all our problems for us.
and the extreme anti-religious,
of a golden age that never was,
不曾擁有過的黃金年代;
of a utopia that never will be
根本不可能會發生的烏托邦。
equally convinced
or the absence of God
who will save us from ourselves
從自己手中解救出來的,
counterintuitive truths:
那些美好而反直覺的真相:
when it cares about the vulnerable.
它就會變得無堅不摧。
to begin to change the world.
the word "self,"
of the most moving sentences
of the shadow of death,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks - Religious leaderIn a world violently polarized by extremists, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is proposing and advocating solutions to mounting religious intolerance.
Why you should listen
Rabbi Lord Sacks is one of Judaism's spiritual leaders, and he exercises a primary influence on the thought and philosophy of Jews and people of all faiths worldwide. Since stepping down as Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth in 2013, Rabbi Lord Sacks has become an increasingly well-known speaker, respected moral voice and writer. He has authored more than 30 books, the latest, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, was published in 2015.
Granted a seat in the British House of Lords in 2009 and the winner of the 2016 Templeton Prize, Rabbi Lord Sacks is a key Jewish voice for universalism and an embrace of tolerance between religions and cultures. He rejects the "politics of anger" brought about by the way "we have acted as if markets can function without morals, international corporations without social responsibility and economic systems without regard to their effect on the people left stranded by the shifting tide." He also sees, as a key idea for faith in our times, that unity in heaven creates diversity on earth.
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