There is but one step from the sublime to the evil. Sublime is nothing but what makes the evil idea just an idea.

高尚与邪恶只有一步之遥，高尚就是使那些邪恶的想法最终只能成为一种想法而已。

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The idea of The Matrix is explicitly built upon Cartesian— Descartes' worries about an evil demon.

《黑客帝国》的创意完全基于笛卡尔的哲学——笛卡尔对于恶灵的忧虑。

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René Descartes in his book, Meditations (1642), discussed the idea that he might be deceived by a malign genius, "some evil demon, who has used all his artifice to deceive me".

勒奈·笛卡儿在他的著作《沉思集》（1642）中讨论了这样的想法：他可能被一个邪恶的天才所欺骗。 “某个恶毒的魔鬼，已用尽他的所有诡计来蒙骗我。”

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I met a lot of people there and I never once got the idea that anyone there was evil or grasping.

在那我见了很多人,但是我没有察觉到,任何恶毒或者贪婪的气息。

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The idea of The Matrix is explicitly built upon Cartesian— Descartes' worries about an evil demon.

黑客帝国》的创意,完全基于笛卡尔的哲学,笛卡尔对于恶灵的忧虑

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So, the Garden of Eden story communicates what Kaufman would identify as a basic idea of the monotheistic worldview: That evil isn't a metaphysical reality, it's a moral reality.

因此，伊甸园的故事里传达了Kaufman所说的,基本的一神论世界观：,邪恶并不是形而上学的存在，而是道德的现实。

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