要提倡唯物辩证法，反对形而上学和烦琐哲学。

Promote materialist dialectics and oppose metaphysics and scholasticism.

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广泛上讲，这门课程的前半部分，对于你们中熟悉哲学术语的人来说，将会是形而上学。

In broad scope, the first half of the class is going to be metaphysics, for those of you who are familiar with the philosophical piece of jargon.

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但是，显然伊壁鸠鲁的真正兴趣不在推理式的形而上学之上，而在于对生活有实用价值的哲学上，而这种哲学仅仅只是将原子论作为其理论基础。

It is clear, however, that Epicurus' real interest was not in speculative metaphysics but with a practical philosophy of life which required atomism only for its theoretical underpinnings.

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In broad scope, the first half of the class is going to be metaphysics, for those of you who are familiar with the philosophical piece of jargon.

广泛上讲，这门课程的前半部分，对于你们中熟悉哲学术语的人来说,将会是形而上学。

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It's not necessarily chronological, but at the same time it gives you a sense of successive metaphysical philosophers thinking about first causes, origins, and about whatever it is that determines everything else.

这不一定是按时间顺序排列的，但同时,它会给你一种感觉那就是，一位又一位形而上学哲学家,思考原动力，起源，思考到底是什么觉定了其他的一切。

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