And in many ways, we can understand human intellectual history just based on this idea: ? should we accept human nature?

在很多方面，我们能理解人类智力发展历史,仅仅基于这个观点：,应不应该接受人类本性？

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that man is political by nature is not just to say that we become fully human by participating with others in a city.

说人类天生具有政治性,并非意指,我们能成为完整的人,仅是和城市中的其它人共同参与。

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This probably is not because use of eating utensils is human nature, but rather, it's because it's just a very useful thing that cultures discover over and over again.

之所以都用餐具,并不是因为使用餐具是人类本性,而是因为,所有文化都不断发现,餐具非常的实用

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It actually, it's been shown, seems to foreshadow the political philosophy of Milton's much younger contemporary, John Locke -- the notion that nature demands that every human individual has just enough, is given just enough to be self-sufficient.

事实上这一论点似乎提前预兆了,比弥尔顿年轻许多的同代人，他们的政治哲学，约翰·洛克--他认为自然要求,每个自然人拥有足够自己使用的，每个人只得到足够自给的就够了。

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I'm going to argue for the latter of what I just said, for the fact that human nature needs to be obeyed with all its flaws,with all its shortcomings, as opposed to attempting to perfect it on the psychological level.

我会谈到后者，就是说我们必须顺从于人性,接受它所有的缺陷和优点，而不是试图从心理层面上,完善它。

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