It can be understood as a source of new-found authority, of the freedom of one who has been characteristically not free and can be received by a reading community in those terms.

这可以被理解为一种新建立的权威和，一个特性上不自由的人的自由的源头,同时也可以被看做在这些领域里的一个阅读区。

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But there are a lot of like artists and more like liberal people, and it's a very relaxed place to be.

但是那儿有许多艺术家和一些自由主义者，所以那里是一个很让人放松的地方。

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Everybody in the Civil War will say they're fighting for liberty.

参与内战的每一个人,都会说他们是为了自由而战

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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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Since they are sentient, free creatures, they should have a right to do whatever they want unless there is a compelling argument against it and a compelling argument would have to involve some infringement of the freedom of other people.

因为他们都是有知觉的自由个体，他们有权做他们想做的事,除非有非常强烈的理由反对他们这么做,而这种强烈的理由是指,这种行为会侵害另一个人的自由。

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