For simplicity I'll talk about these views as though they say life per se is valuable.

因为我会简单地把这些观点描述成,生活本身是有价值的。

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.. So I'm going to restrict myself, at least when I think about it, to versions that say, it's the life of a person per se that's valuable.

所以我会坚持，至少是对我来说，我会坚持，作为人活着的本身是有价值的这种观点。

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Now, if that's the sort of thing you know about Freud, you are not going to have a very high opinion of him or of his work, but at the core of Freud's declamation, the more interesting ideas, is a set of claims of a man's intellectual importance.

如果大家对于弗洛伊德的了解仅限于此，一定不会对他及其学说给予太高的评价，不过弗洛伊德理论的核心，也是更有价值的观点，是一系列关于人类理性的主张。

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The reason this fulfillment is important and can be valued is, - according to Richards, that these needs-- unless they are organized or harmonized so that they work together in what he sometimes calls a "synthesis"-- can actually tear us apart.

这种满足之所以重要而有价值是因为，根据Richards的观点，我们的需求-,如果没有被和谐地组织起来,形成一个综合体-,它们会将我们粉碎。

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