Now, people may come and go, but perfect justice -the idea of perfect justice--that's timeless.

人类可能生老病死,但是完美的正义,或者说完美正义的理念,是永恒的

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So whatever perfect justice is, it's not one more thing in the empirical world.

所以无论完美的正义是什么,它不存在于经验世界中

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But we shouldn't confuse the physical things which can be just, the people who can be virtuous to one degree or another, with perfect virtue or perfect justice.

但是我们不应该把可能正义的现实事物,比如,多少有些,德行的人,同完美的德性或完美的正义相混淆

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And notice how ordinary empirical social arrangements fall short of perfect justice.

并且意识到普通的现实社会制度,是多么的缺乏完美的正义

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Yet for all that, the mind can think about perfect justice.

虽然如此,但我们的心灵却可以思考完美的正义

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The mind can think about them, but justice itself--this perfect, this idea of being perfectly just-- that's something the mind can think about, but it's not here in the world.

心灵可以去设想它们,但是正义本身,即完美的正义这个理念,它是可以用心灵去把握的,尽管在现实世界里不存在

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In order for a more or less just society to remind me of justice itself, so that I can start thinking about the nature of justice itself, I have to somehow have already been acquainted with perfect justice.

如果一个较为正义的社会,能让我想到公正本身,能让我思考公正的本质,我起码需要,对完美的正义有所认识

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