There are three kinds of life: the vegetal life, zooid life, and the rational life.

生命有三种，即植物性生命，动物性生命和理性生命。

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He lives a very rational life.

他过着非常理性的生活。

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There is no reason not a rational life.

没有理智决不会有理性的生活。

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But, he says, if he tries to persuade people of the goodness and the justice of his way of life on simply rational grounds alone, to persuade them that the examined life alone is worth living, he says he will not be believed.

但他表示，假设他试图说服,良善及正直之士,相信其生活方式的作法,仅在简单的理性基础上，或者试图说服他们,经反省的生命才值得活，他说他们也仍然不会相信他。

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We are not dumping stuff on the market, and we're not going to make stupid decisions, but there are things that we think have reached their height in the life cycle given rational pricing.

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That means they must think even more, and be more rational (if their goal is life and happiness).

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The goal of modern liberalism was the rational state, a state that completed the long-standing attempt at the rational control of nature and human life that began with Machiavelli and culminated with Hegel.

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