Man brings the sense of what the world is into being and then stands aside and somehow sort of takes it in through an aesthetic register or in some other remote way.

人类创造了世界的意义,然后站到了一边，然后,通过美学的认证或其它遥远的方式将其吸收。

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There is first the understandable aesthetic power, the power of the beauty of Milton's verse, an aesthetic power that's often thought or felt to inhere somewhere in the poetry itself.

首先是美学上的力量，这是可以理解的，弥尔顿的诗句之美的力量，一种美学意义上的力量,大家通常认为或觉得这是弥尔顿诗歌本身固有的一种力量。

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So that's Kant's famous distinction between the purposive, which is the organization of an aesthetic object, and the purposeful, which is the organization of any object insofar as it goes to work in the world or for us.

所以康德的著名理论，关于区分美学意义上的“合目的性“,和存在意义上,服务于我们的“目的性“

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