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 line of demarcation therefore between the divine and the natural And human worlds would appear to be clear.

那么神圣与自然的界限,以及与人类世界的界线就很清楚了。

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If God created the world, and set nature into motion, and in what way is God responsible or irresponsible.

如果上帝创造了世界，让自然开始运转，那么上帝对什么有责任，又对什么没有责任呢？

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There's a kind of organic continuity that men partake of just as the natural world does.

如同自然世界的新陈代谢，人类也有一种,有机的代谢与持续。

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The sign is not linked to the natural world by any natural means, and the sign is not linked to other signs by any natural means.

符号不会自然地，和自然世界产生联系。

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But a framework in which to understand it is that pro-slavery ideology was, at its heart, a kind of deeply conservative, organic worldview.

支撑奴隶制度思想体系的框架,若要去理解这副框架的话,其核心,是某种极度传统,接近自然的世界观

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The first point worth noting about this, is that Aristotle did not simply assume slavery was natural, because it was practiced virtually everywhere in the ancient world.

第一点值得注意的是，亚里士多德并未,简单纯地假设奴役是自然的，只因奴役在古代的世界,四处可见。

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There has been a slippage from Christian spirituality into something like a pagan naturalism, and it's a world in which all things are physical.

它们从基督教的精神性,滑向了一种异端的类似自然主义的东西，它们描绘的世界里万物都是物质的。

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What that means, Kaufman asserts, is that in pagan religion there's very often a fluid boundary between the divine, the human, and the natural worlds. They blur into one another because they all emerge ultimately from the same primordial world stuff.

考夫曼认为，在异教概念里,神族、人类和自然世界的划分标准通常是不固定的，三者之间互相影响，因为从根本上来说,它们都是从同一个世界本源上发展而来。

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States stand to one another on the world stage as individuals do in the condition of nature; that is to say, potential enemies with no higher authority by which to adjudicate their conflicts.

国家相对于世界的关系,就好比人相对于自然的关系;,也就是说,在冲突面前不会有更高的权威,来裁定谁对谁错，只能弱肉强食。

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But even the Hobbesian state, Hobbes admits himself, the Hobbesian state lives in the midst of a Hobbesian world; that is to say, the world of international relations is for Hobbes simply the state of nature at large.

不过他也承认，这霍布斯式的国家只能存在于,霍布斯式的世界状态里，而在这样的世界状态中,国家关系只是放大了的自然关系。

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