I took those same references the exact opposite way, 'cause I thought that essentially he's referring to the temporality of our moral structure, and how it's just this arbitrary code which our society has decided upon.

我对那些参考的理解完全不同，因为我认为本质上他提到了我们道德基准的暂时性,还提到它们如何只是我们社会,随意决定的准则。

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So, you have this tremendous continuity between the sort of the honor code that was so dominant in the Homeric world, which has now been shifted to the larger unit, which is the polis.

现在你对荣耀法则的变迁应当有所了解了,荷马时期的主流是个人英雄主义,逐渐演变成现在对更广泛的集体,也就是对城邦的担当

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