"All this,in turn, requires something else, which is something more fundamental.

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Well,maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level,we don't truly believe it.

也许这个的解释就是，纵然我们口头上说我们会死，在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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We like people who are honest, who are kind, who are smart, who are funny, but study after study finds more fundamental processes are also at work and here is a list of three of them.

我们喜欢诚实，善良，聪明，有趣的人，但一个又一个研究表明还有其他一些心理过程,起了作用，我来一一列举。

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No no question that I can think of can be more fundamental. And this finally raises the question of the relation between the best regime or the good regime and what we could say are actually existing regimes regimes that we are all familiar with.

不，我想不出其它,更基础的问题,而这将带出一个问题,即最优政体与好政体之间的关系,及我们实际上可说的是，现存的政体,那个我们都非常熟悉的政体。

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He revises it away from that to the more generalized, fundamental, but also very personal figure of the mother and the maternal.

但对母亲以及母性来说，这也是一很个人化的角色。

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