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96-11年翻译 1996年 71) Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs. Others are reasonable consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent self-accelerating. 72) This trend began during the Second World War, when several governments came to the conclusion that the specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment cannot generally be foreseen in detail This seems mostly effectively done by supporting a certain amount of research not related to immediate goals but of possible consequence in the future. However, the world is so made that elegant systems are in principle unable to deal with some of the worlds more fascinating and delightful aspects. 75) New forms of thought as well as new subjects for thought must arise in the future as they have in the past, giving rise to new standards of elegance. 1997年 Actually, it isnt, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have. 72) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements. 73) It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all. 74) Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice. 75) When that happens, it is not a mistake: it is mankinds instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at. 1998年 But even more important, it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past, for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed 15 billion years ago .72) The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang, first put forward in the 1920s,