Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.

假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。

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And even if we accept the valuable container theory, and so we say, " "Hah, you know, being alive per se is worth something as well."

如果我们接受有价值容器理论，我们会说，“活着本身也是有价值的“

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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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So, it's something like the life of a person that, when we say, when there are people who are inclined to say, that being alive per so is valuable, presumably what they mean is being alive as a person per se is valuable.

所以这差不多就是人的生活，当说到，当人们说到，活着本身是有价值的，我们便假设它的意思是,作为人活着的本身是有价值的。

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It's natural to talk that way, but if we want belief in the soul to help us hold out the possibility at least that there might be life after death, then I think we need to actually say that strictly speaking, it's not that a person is a soul plus a body.

这说起来很轻松,如果我们想要寄托于,相信灵魂的存在,而让死后能够继续活着有据可依,那么我们需要一个严格的说法,不是说一个人是灵魂加肉体

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We have to not talk-- just talk about the good things in the life, but the good of life itself, and we have to notice that perhaps on certain views, for certain cases, it's not really the case that when I die I'm being deprived of a good life.

我们不但要看到-,生活中的美好事物，还要看到活着本身的好处，我们发现也许有某些观点，在某些情况下，情况则不完全是这样,即我死之后不会被剥夺美好的生活。

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