判断人生是否值得活下去就意味着回答了哲学的根本问题。

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

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合理性是困扰着当代哲学和人类生活的根本问题。

Rationality is the essential question which puzzles modern philosophy and human life.

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“变易”是西方哲学的根本问题。

Becoming is a fundamental problem in western philosophy.

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Now theory resembles philosophy perhaps in this: that it asks fundamental questions and also at times builds systems.

理论和哲学的相似之处在于：,它探讨根本性的问题，而且有时也建立系统。

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