That is to say, it is subservient to the natural world; its importance is that it refers to that world.

也就是说，这些学科都是自然世界的奴仆;,它们存在的价值就是去解释那个自然世界。

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The value of money changes through time because of inflation or deflation; yet, most of our debts are written in money terms.

货币的价值因时而异,那是因为存在通货膨胀和通货紧缩;,但是，我们大多数负债都以货币方式记录。

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And we need to ask in the case of higher or worthier pleasures are there theories of the good life that can provide independent moral standards for the worth of pleasures?

我们要问，就更高的或更有价值的快乐而言,是否存在“良善生活“的理论,能为快乐的价值,提供独立的道德标准？

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"Life's always worth living; " it's always better than non-existence."

活着总是有它的价值;,“活着总比不存在要好“

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Can you talk a little about what you mean by... I mean I've read the chapter Well, I think it's a phrase that used by Welles and he says he, as a fascination for values that exsited in earlier society, which don't exist any more.

你能再解释一下你的问题吗。,当然，我是读完了这一章的,这是威尔斯常用的一句习语,正如他所说，这东西是一种内在的价值魅力,不过现在已经不存在了，只能在历史中找到些许影子。

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Marx, in the famous argument about commodity fetishism in Kapital, is comparing the way in which we take the product of human labor and turn it into a commodity by saying that it has objective value, by saying that we know what its value is in and of itself.

马克思在《资本论》里关于商品拜物教的著名论述中，比较了我们通过人类劳动创造产品,并将其转化为商品的方法,认为产品具有客观价值，认为我们知道它的价值存在于何并且知道它本身。

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