Ultimately, Reason allows us to choose that which is in tune with our true nature with greater accuracy than if we merely follow our animal instinct.

最后，理智使得我们可以更准确的选择适合我们本性的事物，这好过我们仅凭我们的动物本能进行的选择。

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We're not being merely churlish, I think, if we want to ask why someone would want to write a poem in such a form.

我们要问为什么会有人,想要写这种形式的诗并非毫无道理。

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Now, if we push the dualist to explain what is it about free will that rules out the possibility that we are merely physical objects, I think the natural suggestion to spell out the argument goes like this, and this is where we were at the end of last time.

现在如果我们让二元论者去解释,什么是自由意志,它又是如何否定,人仅仅是物理实体这种可能性的,我认为他们自然会这样,阐述这个论证,这是就我们在上节课结束时讲到的内容

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