You remember, when he talks about the state of nature, he is not talking about an imaginary place.

你们应该记得，他所谈到的自然状态，并不是某个假想的地方。

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And then when you are out in nature, you can be really like I could die, you know, look at Katrina, look at all these things.

一旦你来到了自然中，你真的会想,“我会死在这儿吧“，想想卡特里娜飓风，想想所有的自然灾害。

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You always have to get worried in history when people start talking about how human beings or human behavior is rooted in nature.

当你了解那段历史中的人们在讨论,某些人类或者人类行为是天性使然时,你会为此担忧

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When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

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For injustice is most dangerous when it is armed and man armed by nature with good sense and virtue may use them for entirely opposite ends.

因为非正义一旦被武装起来将最为危险,好人也可能利用,善心和美德而为非作歹

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When, rather than trying to fight or defeat our nature, we accept it.

不是想办法战斗打败我们的本性，我们接受它。

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On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.

一方面，乐观主义者可能说，“就算我们把另外的相互影响，就算把负面的相互影响算进去，人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。

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So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.

这响应了，亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变，城市永远不能是一座万国之城。

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And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.

现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。

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Not just that, but the moral certainties that may have seemed distinct when we contrasted the ethereal heaven with the spotty and the imperfect nature of Satan and of the moon -those, too begin to seem fairly hazy.

不仅如此，其中看起来有所不同的,当我们对比天堂和撒旦与月亮的不完美时,其中道德的确定性,-那些令人模糊朦胧的事务，也开始崩塌。

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So look,what I've just been talking about for the last half hour or so is the fact that we've got to get clear, in thinking about the nature of death, as to whether or not the crucial moment is the moment when the personality functioning stops or the moment when the bodily functioning stops.

过去的半个小时,我一直在说我们要搞清，死亡的本质，是人格功能还是生理功能的停止,定义了死亡。

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It is important to also study ourselves, because when we see our deep nature, what we encounter there is part of the universal nature, the similarities among us all, regardless of where we are from.

研究我们自己也很重要，因为当我们看到自己的深层本性时，我们看到的是部分普遍的本性，我们所有人之间的共性，不管我们来自哪里。

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this is why Maslow said human nature and human potential has been sold short, when we only study the average.

这就是为什么Maslow说人性,和人的潜能会被削弱，如果我们只研究平均水平的话。

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