It was a society that eventually developed a disdain for what they perceived as the corruptions of modern commercialism.

南方社会,对他们认为的腐败的现代重商主义,持有一种相当鄙夷的态度

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But the modern world, to get back to that, to this Enlightenment world, individualism and a key aspect to that is hedonism.

但是回到现代社会,回到启蒙时期的世界,个人主义的关键在于享乐主义

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.. I think that what's happening is these ideas-- Everything is evolving, so I'm actually presenting here our modern finance as the outgrowth of socialism, but that's not the usual way to present it.

我认为这些想法观念也正在-,一切都在进步，但我真正想表达的是现代金融,也可以被解读为社会主义的一个产物，这种解读并不常见。

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Now, you don't have to buy that and individuals undoubtedly found the strain too much from time to time, but what's interesting, is rather the ideal, the claim, the theory.

你不必非得接受这些理论,况且现代社会常充斥着个人主义倾向,但是那些理想,主张和理论却更意味深长

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