It is not far from where remains of the oldest known human ancestors, Luci and Ardi were found, shedding light on the origins of humanity.

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The good human being loves what is good simply not because it is his own but because it is good.

好人喜欢单纯良善的人事物,不只是因为那与他有关，而是因为那是良善的。

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Please observe too that it is not his reason that will determine human actions but his will alone, free of the moderating control of reason.

注意这不是他仅凭意志,决定人类行为的理由,而是理性对自由意志产生了潜移默化的影响

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The regime for him is not one branch of human activity among others it is the fundamental principle or ordering principle that makes all the others even possible.

对他而言,政体并非人类活动的一个分支,而是基本的原则,或说是指导原则,使所有其它学科化作可能,这就是为何。

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And by that I mean a Burkean conservatism, a set of beliefs that says the world is ordered as it is, for reasons, and that human beings ought not tinker with that order, very much.

这里我指的是一种保守主义,相信这世界是始终按照秩序,运转的一套信仰,因此,人类 无论如何不能去僭越规则

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Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

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