It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

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The portrait of humans that emerges is that Humans are unimportant menials. They are the slaves of the gods, The gods have little reciprocal interest in or concern for them, And they create human beings to do the work of running the world.

接着便出现了对于人类的描绘,人类是卑微的仆人，他们是上帝的奴隶，上帝与他们没有共同利益，也并不关心他们，他们创造了人类是为了让他们接下治世的苦活。

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And by that I mean a Burkean conservatism, a set of beliefs that says the world is ordered as it is, for reasons, and that human beings ought not tinker with that order, very much.

这里我指的是一种保守主义,相信这世界是始终按照秩序,运转的一套信仰,因此,人类 无论如何不能去僭越规则

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