But recent advances in psychology and neuroscience may suggest that if we want to understand social and political behavior, or improve policies, we should be reading Hegel more than Bentham. That may sound weird, given that Hegel was an Idealist and would never have expected neuroscience – a material reality independent of Geist (usually translated as Mind or Spirit) – to be relevant to his inquiry.
但心理学和神经科学的新进展表明，要理解社会和政治行为，或者，要改进政策，我们更应该读一读黑格尔而不是边沁。这听起来也许有些奇怪，因为黑格尔是个理想主义者，他永远不会想到神经科学——独立于Geist（通常被译为“思想”或“精神”）的物质实在——会与他的研究扯上关系。