Because when we see that something is just necessary, we-- it reduces the sting of it.

因为当我们认识到有些事是必然的-,它便感少了我们对它的痛苦。

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So it's not just merely the case that in fact we are all going to die; it's a necessary truth that we're all going to die.

所以我们会死去,不仅是一个事实;,我们会死去还是必然的真理。

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This raises a question. Whether the relation between contemporary political science and liberalism is merely accidental or whether there is some intrinsic some necessary connection between them.

这导出一个问题，当代政治科学,与自由主义的关系仅是偶然,或之间，有些本质的,一些必然的,连结介于两者之间。

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Identity is not necessary, but contingent, as the philosophers put it."

同一性不是必然的,而是偶然的,就像哲学家们常说的

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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