Some ideas conveyed in the Four Books even contradict contemporary thoughts.

许多四书中的思想甚至有悖于今天的思想。

Following the heady rediscovery of man and nature in the Renaissance, the need to assemble contemporary thought into one coherent philosophical system again presented itself.

随着文艺复兴时期对人与自然的重新发现，将当代思想整合到一个连贯的哲学体系中的需求再次出现。

Contemporary thought is still deeply steeped in the notion that if people do not spend their money in one way they will spend it in another.

当代思想仍然深深地沉浸在这样一种观念中，即如果人们不以一种方式花钱，他们就会以另一种方式花钱。

Yet from the beginning, he displayed an unusual brand  of capitalistic egalitarianism, where his ceaseless drive to make money overrode  some of the more absurd axioms of contemporary racial thought.

然而从一开始， 他就表现出了一种不同寻常的资本主义平等主义，他对赚钱的不懈追求超越了当代种族思想中一些更荒谬的公理。