Is it part of your nature to be good or bad or is it largely due to the situation that you fall in?

人性究竟是善还是恶,或者说是否应当更多地归因于所处的环境

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By building certain political institutions that would channel the flawed, imperfect human nature toward the good.

通过建立某种政治机构,引导有缺陷的，不完美的人性向好的方面发展。

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So the world isn't essentially good in its nature or essentially bad.

因此世界在本质上并没有好坏差别。

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For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends.

因为非正义一旦被武装起来将最为危险,好人也可能利用,善心和美德而为非作歹

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If we want to get anyplace on the question about the nature of the good life, what we need to focus on is not the instrumental goods and bads, but rather the intrinsic goods and bads.

如果我们想在,何为“好的人生的本质“问题上得出结论，我们需要专注的不是利用价值的好与坏，而是固有价值的好与坏。

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They were very often associated with blind forces of nature with no intrinsic moral character, he says. And the god of Israel was understood to transcend nature and his will was not only absolute, it was absolutely good and moral.

他们与自然的力量相关,没有内在的品德，而以色列的上帝,被认为是超越自然地存在，他的意愿不仅是绝对的，而且是绝对正确和道德的。

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If we appreciate the good in our nature, in our inclinations, if we appreciate that part of our nature, it will appreciate and we'll have more of it.

如果我们欣赏人性中，欲望中好的东西，如果我们欣赏本性中那一部分，它将升值，我们将获得更多。

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Just as Enkidu gains wisdom and becomes like a god and loses his oneness with nature, so Adam and Eve after eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil are said to have become like gods and they also lose their harmonious relationship with nature.

就像Enkidu得到智慧，变得有神性，却失掉,与自然的和谐，亚当和夏娃在吃了智慧果以后,也变得具有神性,同时也失掉了与自然的和谐关系。

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