来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第2集 第2集》
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we need to get clearer about:我们需要先清楚以下问题 -
What exactly is it for something to be me?我究竟是什么东西 -
That's a question we'll turn to in a couple of weeks.那是未来两周我们着重讨论的问题 -
First, we've got to get clearer about: What am I?首先 我们先要清楚 我是什么 -
What kind of an entity am I?我是什么样的实体 -
What am I made of? In philosophical jargon,我是什么组成的 在哲学术语里 -
this is a question from metaphysics.这是个哲学问题 -
So we're asking the metaphysical question:所以我们在讨论的是一个哲学问题 -
What kind of a thing is a person?人是一种什么样的东西 -
It seems plausible to think这似乎可以理解成 -
that whether or not a person can survive一个人的肉体死亡后 -
or continue to exist after the death of his or her body能否幸存或继续存在