That's another invention of the 1600s, by the way-- the thermometer. And they learned that concept-- perfectly natural to us--temperature.

顺便说一下,温度计也是十七世纪的发明,那时候的人才刚刚开始理解温度的概念,虽然对我们来说这是个很自然的概念

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Well, this brings me to some criticisms or at least some questions about Hobbes' conception of the laws of nature.

好，这令我产生了批判的想法,至少是一些关于霍布斯,对于自然法概念的问题。

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Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights, or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.

当然,古希腊人没有自然权利,或者天赋人权的概念

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Remember back to Alexander H. Steven's cornerstone quote he uses the word "Natural" Twice in that passage.

还记得亚历山大·斯蒂文的柱石上的引文,这段引文中他用了"自然"这个概念两次

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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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Nature is a meaningless concept just like the lack of meaning within nature, where there's no culture until culture comes along and says, "Oh, not so much there is nature, but I'm terribly unhappy because before I came along, there was nature." Right?

自然是个没有意义的概念,正如自然之中意义的缺乏，自然中原本没有文明，直到文明走过来说，“哦，自然的存在并不算什么，我很不高兴的是因为,我来之前，这里就有自然了“，是吧？

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The sovereign is not the direct expression of my will or your will, but rather an abstraction from my natural desire to rule myself.

君主制不是对我的，或者你的意志的直接表达,不如说是一种抽象概念,是源于自己统治自己的自然愿望。

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