And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

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And that, in and of itself is justification: ? why not feel good, if we can feel good?

这本身就是辩解理由：,如果能感觉好，为什么不感觉好呢？

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And then there's the whole vast category of racial defense and justification of slavery.

随后有大篇幅的种族辩护,以及奴隶制合法化的阐述

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The antiquity of a law alone is no justification for its usage. Aristotle seems to reject you might say Burkean conservatism long before the time.

法律的古老性不能作为其用法的借口,亚里士多德似乎事先拒绝,你可能会说柏克式的保守主义,古老与传统并不能。

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Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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But the first key issue is that it's good in and of itself-- almost needs no justification.

但首先的关键问题是快乐本身是好的-,几乎无需辩解。

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Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

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