The purpose of this article is to take up the largely unthought challenge of Kant’s celebrated remark about how “two things”—the starry sky above and the moral law within—fill the mind with wonder the more one reflects upon them. After briefly discussing the role of the image of the stars in early Greek thought, and then taking account of what we know about the heavens today, I ask if we have yet come to understand just what our relation to the heavens means. The conclusion is that taking the image of the stars seriously and making the effort to understand what we see in that image humbles us. It brings us before a profound limit regarding our understanding of what it means to be human and what it means to live on the earth.

本文的目的是要解决康德关于“两件事”（上方的繁星点点的天空和其中的道德律）如何使思想充满惊奇的思想，这在很大程度上未曾想到的挑战。在简要讨论了星象在希腊早期思想中的作用，然后考虑了我们对今天的天空的了解之后，我问我们是否还没有开始了解我们与天堂之间的关系。结论是，认真对待恒星的图像并努力理解我们在该图像中看到的内容会使我们感到谦卑。它使我们对人类的意义以及在地球上生活的意义的理解受到了深刻的限制。