A good law," he says in chapter 30, "is that which is needful for the good of the people."

霍布斯在书的第30章说，一部好的法律,对维护人民的福祉是非常必要的“

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But then one asks, what are the criteria ? by which we determine the good of the people?

但有人要问了,判断何为人民的福祉的标准是什么呢？

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It's saying everybody has to be counted as an equal even though at the end of the day, one can be sacrificed for the general welfare.

基本观点是，众生皆平等,虽然不得已之时，为了大众的福祉，个体还是可以被牺牲的。

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Sidney's talking about the various kinds of discourse: - divinity, hymnody, science, philosophy, history-- in other words, all the ways in which you can contribute to human betterment and human welfare. He says in the case of all but one of them, each discourse is a "serving science."

西德尼进行了很多方面的阐述：,神学，赞美诗，科学，哲学，历史-,换句话说，所有你能想到的,对人类福祉有益处的方式,他说这里面除了诗学，其他都是“服务性学科“

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Bentham says we have to consider the welfare, the utility, the happiness of everybody.

边沁说我们必须得考虑,大众的福祉，功利，大家的幸福。

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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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Continual success," he writes in chapter 6, "continual success in obtaining those things which a man from time to time desireth is what is called happiness or felicity.

不断取得成功“，他在第六章中写到，“一个人对于时常想望的事物能不断取得成功,也就是处于不断繁荣昌盛状态时,就是人们所谓的福祉。

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We are political animals, he says, because participation in the life of the city is necessary for the achievement of human excellence, for the achievement of our well-being.

他说，我们是政治动物，因为参与城市生活,才能达致,人类卓越，也才能达致我们的福祉。

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