We even have entire disciplines like economics and psychology and I dare even say modern political science that reinforced this view of human nature.

看吧，我们有一整套经济学,和心理学的理论服务于个人,而且我敢说，在现代政治科学上,更是强调了人的个体特性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We have to make finance work for real people, so for me that meant understanding human frailties and understanding human psychology to make things work.

金融必须服务于现实中的人们,对我也是一样,于是就要了解人性弱点,了解人们的心理,这样才能对症下药

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They clearly serve the interests of an upper class.

他们很显然服务于上层阶级的利益。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

the quality of spirit than I am even correctness of doctrine, is it a high-quality commitment to service to others, are you willing to take a risk, what kind of price are you willing to pay.

多过于教义的准确性，你是否真正投身于对他人的服务中？,你愿意冒险吗？你愿意花多大的代价？

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Aristotle famously was a tutor of Alexander the Great. Machiavelli spent a large part of his career in the foreign service of his native Florence and wrote as an advisor to the Medici.

亚里士多德有指导亚历山大大帝的著名史实；,马奇亚维利职涯中,长期服务于佛罗伦萨,原乡的外交部门,而且是梅迪西家族的顾问；

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So that's Kant's famous distinction between the purposive, which is the organization of an aesthetic object, and the purposeful, which is the organization of any object insofar as it goes to work in the world or for us.

所以康德的著名理论，关于区分美学意义上的“合目的性“,和存在意义上,服务于我们的“目的性“

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I should have also mentioned another really important information technology that developed in the nineteenth century was the Postal Service, although we had mail before then.

我应该也提到过,另一个产生于19世纪的,非常重要的信息技术,就是邮政服务，虽然我们在此之前就有信件往来。

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