If we do justice and if we respect rights, society as a whole will be better off in the long run.
如果我们秉持公正,尊重权利,从长远看,社会整体会发展得更好。
Looking at the continuation of the verse, of the passage, We have some idea because humans, we see, are going to be charged with specific duties towards, and rights over, the created world.
让我们来看这一节还讲了什么,这一章还有什么,我们便会有一些想法,因为我们知道人类将会,被赋予一些职责和权利来管理被创造的世界。
But after this umbrella level of equality come different types of people, and those different types of people are going to require different levels of rights. Gender, absolutely.
不过在这个平等的层面下,会有各类人等,这些形形色色的人会要求,不同层次的权利,性别肯定。
When you hear a slaveholder preach about his individual liberty and his rights, you sometimes wonder, "Come on, where do you get off?"
当你听见一个奴隶主鼓吹,他的个人自由和他的个人权利时,你有时候会想,"拜托,你是怎么做的呢"
What are the consequences for a theory of justice and in account of rights of calling into question the idea of self possession?
如果有一套公正理论和对权利的解释,对自我拥有提出质疑,会引起怎样的后果呢?
There is this real fear that large standing armies could ultimately compromise the rights of freeborn Englishmen.
他们所真正担心的是大量常备军,可能最终会危及到"生而自由"的英国人的权利
On the other hand, if you're in an ethics of community you might argue that men and women have different rights and different responsibilities.
但在另一方面,如果你的文化是集体道德,你可能会认为男人和女人,有不同的权利和不同的义务。
Would this have been permitted ? in any other city of the ancient world?
这种权利会被允许吗,在其它古代世界的城市中?
Or we might say,look,certainly I have a right to life.
我们可能会说,当然是我有活下去的权利。
This is going to affect the world; it's going to affect world economies; it's going to affect world politics, the balance of power and things like that, so it's important that we understand it.
这会影响全世界,会影响世界经济,会影响世界政治和权利的均衡,以及类似的事情,懂得这件事是很必要的
Otherwise, if you don't buy all the debt, you still have a problem because those debtors can go after you because they are-- they're not shareholders but they have rights and they could come in and say, we don't like what you're doing; we're going to sue you because we think that you're doing something contrary to our interest as debtors.
不然,如果你没接下全部债务,就不能安枕无忧,因为这些债务人会跟着你,他们不是股东,但他们有权利,他们会跳出来说,我们不喜欢你的做法,我们要起诉你,因为你的做法违背了我们债权人的利益
And you might think what a strange right but there's a cleverness to it.
你可以会觉得这个权利很奇怪,但这条权利有它的聪明之处。
But there's a balance to it that I'll discuss in a while.
我等会儿会提到这中间权利的制衡,以英国为例
Well, he says because in the long run, if we do justice and if we respect rights, society as a whole will be better off in the long run.
他说,因为从长远看,如果我们秉持公正,尊重权利,社会整体会发展得更好。
If we have a debate about abortion in this class, people--some people might say, "Look. The fetus is a sentient being and as such it has a right to survive and shouldn't be killed by its mother."
如果我们在课常上以堕胎展开辩论,有些人可能会说,“胎儿是有知觉的生命体,所以它有生存的权利,它的母亲不应该扼杀它”
Now, one of the reasons why people would-- it's unthinkable for someone like me or for probably most of you to imagine giving up your rights to a kind of absolute rule, though we seem to be in a situation like that, where that's happened quite a lot recently, even in this own country.
我或者你们中绝大多数的人,很难想象会有这么多人,宁愿放弃自己的权利,而屈从于一种绝对王权的原因,尽管在我们国家,最近类似的事情层出不穷,让我们仿佛能够感同身受
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