If they acted with a kind of mechanical necessity or even geometric necessity, they could not possibly be moral laws in that way.

如果这些法则有机械上,或者几何上的必须性的话，它们就不能被称作道德法则。

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Leda and the Swan" seems to say a knowledge of the body, of the necessity of embodiment. In the late Yeats, in the poems that I'll be discussing today, there's no knowledge apart from the body.

这诗里似乎说的是身体的知识，表现的必要性，我们要谈论的,叶芝的晚期诗讲的就是身体。

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