This essay explores the idea of acting from knowledge. This idea is a thought of ourselves: the distinctive way in which we act, in which we live, resides in this, that our actions, our life, may rest on knowledge. Yet the idea of action resting on knowledge is puzzling, even mysterious. The difficulty springs from the character of judgment that is knowledge: its objectivity. The objectivity of a judgment is a character of its validity: it is objectively valid. Yet it is equally, and therefore, a character of the source of the reality of a valid judgment: a judgment that is knowledge is explained by nothing other than that which constitutes its validity. Now, action from knowledge partakes of this character of the knowledge on which it rests: it is explained by nothing other than what constitutes its validity, that is, its goodness. This dissolves the idea that action springs from a natural power, a power of change, a physis. That is the mystery. What could action be but the act of a natural power, and what could we be but agents of such a power?

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从知识出发行动

本文探讨了根据知识行事的想法。这个想法是我们自己的想法：我们行动、生活的独特方式就在于，我们的行动、我们的生活可以依赖于知识。然而，基于知识的行动这一想法令人费解，甚至神秘。困难源于判断的特征，即知识：它的客观性。判断的客观性是其有效性的一个特征：它是客观有效的。然而，它同样是有效判断的现实来源的特征：作为知识的判断只能由构成其有效性的东西来解释。现在，来自知识的行动具有其所依赖的知识的这种特征：它只能由构成其有效性的东西来解释，即它的良善。这就消解了“行动源于自然力量、变化的力量、物理”的观念。这就是谜团。行动除了自然力量的行为还能是什么，而我们除了这种力量的代理人还能是什么？