And it requires us to understand history not in moral terms, such as "good" and "evil," but rather in aesthetic terms.

它需要我们,不是以道德层面去理解历史，去判断好坏“,而是要从审美的角度去看。

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And you, you need not to be so ethically imperialist that you can't work with us to open up again the canon if you will of rights in the way we talk about it and to incorporate our perspectives."

而你们呢，你们需要摒弃,那种道德帝国主义态度，也就是,你们不愿跟我们合作,不愿敞开心扉,用我们的方式去理解人权,从我们的角度去看这个问题“

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This is simply another example of how moral goodness grows out of and even requires a context of moral evil. Machiavelli's advice to you is clear.

这只是道德良善怎样源自于而且甚至,需要一个道德败坏的情境的另一个例子,马基雅维利给你们的建议很清楚。

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