of the individual at a high cost,

但是不管是对个人还是社会
both to the individual and society.

代价都是巨大的
These are not the only problems posed

这些问题不仅仅存在于
by the Western tradition in its modern form,

西方现代社会也就是
which is what we live in.

我们现在生活的社会
Whether it takes the shape of the unbridled claims

不管这种理念是否来自于
of Pico della Mirandola or

皮克·德拉·米兰德拉的激烈言论
the nietzschean assertion of the power

或是尼采信徒关于
of the superior individual to transform and shape his own nature,

个人有掌控自己的无上权利的论断
or of the modern totalitarian effort

或者是现代极权主义者所提倡的
to change the nature of humanity by Utopian social engineering,

通过乌托邦社会工程来改变人性
the temptation to arrogance offered by the ideas

这个理念所包含的因诱惑而产生的傲慢