Another aspect that is very important in this sort of enlightenment approach is individualism, that the core of everything is the single individual person.

另外一个启蒙思想的,重要方面是,个人主义,即一切事物的核心在于每个单独的个人

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And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

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