How do we make that assessment, and based on what system of values?

我们应当基于什么价值体系来做判断？

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From the logical positivist perspective, rationality concerns the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated.

从逻辑实证主义的视角，理性是从一些价值系统的方面关注对首选行为选项的选择的，凭借这种价值系统可以评价行为的结果。

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Instead, our minds may have a system of values that usually prevents us from hurting other people to improve our own lives.

相反，我们头脑里可能有一套价值体系，它总是不让我们为改善自己的生活而去伤害他人。

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In, and above all, in the phase of the world, that is, not responsive to our system of values.

总的来说，世界现状，并没有回应我们的价值观。

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Fulfillment is not found, however, in the completion of disjointed goals, no matter how lofty, but only in goals tethered to a deliberate system of personal principles or values.

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Such a system values the weight of products (think: cans, soda) over the quality and nutrition of food.

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But that doesn't add up to a set of values, a belief system or a vision of what America can or should be, like the visions offered by the two presidents who most reshaped the political landscape in the last century, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

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