It can't exist as a force that conceives a human individual from the outside without that individual's consent because we all freely sin. No one can be compelled to do anything within the Miltonic theology of free will.

不存在那种不经人类同意就从外界,构造人类个体的力量,因为我们都自由地带着原罪，在弥尔顿自由意志的学说下,没有人被强迫做任何事。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because the notion of free will was that even if I was in the very same spot again, the very same situation again, I could've chosen differently.

因为自由意志的内涵就是,即使我再次处在相同的地点,相同的情况下,我也可能做出不同的选择

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or, if you take England,for example, people came to care in very major ways what people in Manchester thought because Manchester becomes the capital essentially of the north and the economic center of production.

或者,拿英格兰举例,曼彻斯特人的意志具有很大影响力,因为那里对于北部的重要性堪比首都,并且是工业经济中心

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

See this is testing your restraint because those of you who have willpower will stay for the rest of the class, the rest of you will flee the room and go to Starbucks right up on the corner and get something like this.

这简直是在考验你们对食物的抵抗力,因为你们中有意志力的人,会留下听完后半节课,其他人则会飞奔出教室,奔向在转弯角上的星巴克,然后买点吃的

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And because he knew that the past rigors had generated some hatred for Ramiro, to purge the spirits of that people and to gain them entirely to himself, he wishes to show that if any cruelty had been committed, Cesare this had not come from him, from Cesare, but from the harsh nature of his minister.

因为他清楚过去的严苛行为,已为，Ramiro，招来一些怨怼，因为他想要肃清那些人的意志,以期完全掌控他们，他希望,有任何的残忍的行为，那也不是他的主意而是，而是来自其官员的残暴本性。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But the complaint then, or the objection to the physicalist, takes the form that we couldn't be a merely physical entity because no merely physical entity could have free will.

但人们对此的诟病,或物理主义的反驳者认为,人不可能仅仅是一个物理实体,因为物理实体不可能有自由意志

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So even if it does turn out that you can't have free will and determinism, that doesn't rule out the possibility that we are purely physical objects, because not all purely physical systems are subject to determinism.

因此即使最终证实,你不能同时拥有自由意志和遵从决定论,也不能排除我们是纯粹,物理实体的可能性,因为并不是所有的纯粹物理系统,都遵从决定论

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So even if determinism were true of us, that wouldn't rule out our having free will, because you can-- appearances to the contrary notwithstanding-- have both determinism and free will.

所以即使我们真的服从于决定论,那也不能排除我们有自由意志的可能,因为你能,尽管表面看来并非如此,同时遵从决定论和拥有自由意志

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