That is to say, we're going to focus on the question of what a poem is, and the question "What criteria should we invoke in order to read it for the best and correctly?"

换句话说，我们将把注意力集中在,“什么是诗歌“,和“为了读懂诗歌,我们需要具备哪些素质“的问题上“

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If we want to get anyplace on the question about the nature of the good life, what we need to focus on is not the instrumental goods and bads, but rather the intrinsic goods and bads.

如果我们想在,何为“好的人生的本质“问题上得出结论，我们需要专注的不是利用价值的好与坏，而是固有价值的好与坏。

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Still, in trying to get clear about the nature of wellbeing, the crucial thing to do is to focus not on the question about instrumental value, but rather to focus on the question of intrinsic value.

想搞清楚幸福的本质，至关重要的不是专注于,利用价值的问题，而是应专注于固有价值的问题。

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But in keeping with the focus of our discussion about the badness of death, I want to put aside the moral question ? and think about how good or bad for me ? is it that there's variability in death?

但是为了重点讨论,死亡的坏处，我要撇开道德问题不谈,转而考虑这种情况对我是好是坏,如果死亡有可变性的话？

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