And so, arguably, the fact that life is precious, that it won't endure, could actually increase its value for us.

所以，可以说，生命是珍贵的，它将不再这个事实，事实上可能增加了其对我们来说的价值。

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And we might be attracted to the thought that the value of life is increased by its very preciousness.

我们可能会被这种想法所吸引,那就是生命的价值是因为它的珍贵而增长的。

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And each proposes to Socrates a test that he will have to pass in order to prove the value of justice and the just life.

每一个建议对苏格拉底都是一次必需通过的测试,以证明,正义与公正人生的价值。

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Well, I think that once again, they've made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life, and once again, they failed to take account things like suffering and emotional losses by the families.

我觉得他们犯了与前面案例,相同的错误，量化了生命的价值，但同样的，他们没有考虑受害者家人承受的,痛苦和精神损失。

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And one thing that seems intrinsically bad, one thing that seems to reduce the value of a life, is pain.

有一样东西看似本身就是坏的，它似乎在减少生命的价值，是痛苦。

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I'm not clear that that kind of knowledge gives a whole lot of value to your life.

我不是很确定,这种知识会给你的生活带来多少价值。

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Now, the most natural thing to suggest would be, well, you get clear on your favorite theory about the value of life, whatever that is.

现在，提出的最自然的事情就是，你弄明白你最喜欢的,有关生命价值的理论，不管是什么。

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Above and beyond the question of the contents of my life, we have to remember that the mere fact that I'm alive gives my life some value.

除了我的生活内容，我们还要记得,我活着就已经使我的生命有价值了。

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You could say is this constant fear that Hobbes harps on fear of death and the value of life, to put it rather rudely, ? is this not another word for cowardice?

你可以说持续的恐惧,霍布斯一直在讲对死亡的恐惧和珍视生命，用大白话说，这难道不是懦夫的代名词吗？

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Because, of course, if you're a modest, if you accept the modest version of the valuable container theory, then if the contents get bad enough, that can outweigh the positive value of life.

因为如果你是个保守者，如果你接受保守价值容器理论，那么如果生活内容极为糟糕，它便超越了活着的正数。

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Now, in thinking about these points, ... in effect I'm suggesting that the value of your life-- so ,we previously were talking about different theories of well-being ? and what makes for the best kind of life.

考虑这些观点的时候，实际上我建议你的生命价值-,我们之前谈到了,幸福的各种理论,即最美好的生活是怎样的。

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But I want to pause for a moment and note that this assumption that the way to think about the value of the combination as just a matter of adding the goodness of life and the badness of death and just summing them that way-- that may not be right.

但我想暂停一会并指出,这个用加上生命的好处,和死亡那个的坏处然后求和的方式,去考虑这个组合的价值的假设-,可能并不是正确的。

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