Let's imagine, as he says, human beings as if they were in a sort of laboratory test tube.

让我们设想,人类就像生活在实验室的试管里。

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Hobbes' individuality or individualism is closely connected to this conception of a human being or human well-being as success in the competition for the goods of life.

霍布斯的个性或者个人主义,是与人类或人类福祉的概念紧密相连的,就像在为好生活的奋斗当中,获得了胜利。

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