"So altogether we are pleased now after eight days." "Of course we still have got eight days to go, but there is no reason to believe that those next eight days will not operate as smoothly as we have done so far."

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Well, Plato's very next argument attempts to persuade us that indeed we do have reason to believe that the soul is one of the prior-existing pieces.

柏拉图下面一个论证就试着,说服我们有理由相信,灵魂原来就是存在的

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The state of nature fully continues, in many ways, oddly even in civil society, he says, whenever we have reason to believe that our lives or our properties or ourselves are not secure.

从很多方面来说，自然状态，即使在文明社会里也显得奇怪，不论我们是否有理由相信我们有生活,生命和财产财产安全的保障。

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Even if recycling takes place, we don't have any good reason yet to believe that the soul is one of the recycled parts.

即使循环的确发生了,我们并没有很好的理由来相信,灵魂就是一个循环的部件

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And of course,we don't have any good--as far as I can see-- we don't have any good reason to believe that crucial premise.

当然我们也没有很好的理由-,来相信这个重要前提。

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After all, even if you believe in a soul, as I have remarked previously, that doesn't give us yet any reason to believe the soul continues to exist after the death of your body.

毕竟,就像我之前说过的,即使灵魂是存在的,那也不能说明,灵魂在肉体死后,仍然能继续存在下去

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Even if there is an immortal soul-- Sorry. Even if there is a non-physical soul that's part of me, we don't yet have any reason to believe that it's one of the fundamental building blocks that were being recycled.

即使灵魂是不灭的,不对,即使有个非现实的灵魂是我的一部分,我们并没有任何理由去相信,灵魂是被循环利用的,基本组成部分之一

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Well, Plato thinks what's going to follow is that we have some reason to believe in the immortality of the soul as, again, as we indicated last time, the picture is that the mind--the soul-- is able to grasp these eternal Platonic forms, the ideas.

柏拉图认为接下来,我们就有理由去相信,灵魂的不朽,就像我们上次指出的,它的中心思想是心灵,灵魂,可以去认知,这些柏拉图的型相,理念

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