Is it not palpably nearer the truth to say that no man was ever born free and that no two men were ever born equal?

是否应该说,没有人生来就是自由的,也不可能人人生下来都是平等的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It's a way to avoid the argument; although, for what it's worth, I should mention I don't myself believe that it's false that we have free will.

这是回避这条论证的一种方法,尽管这条论证有它自身的价值,应该说,我个人认为,人有自由意志,并没有错

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And by liberty Hobbes means something that sounds very familiar to us.

霍布斯讲的现代自由,对我们来说应该是再熟悉不过的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They should be free to make those judgments and take those risks.

他们应该有决定的自由，冒险的自由。

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What I am interested in here, and I think what a lot of readers are interested in when they approach Areopagitica, is why this treatise, why it can so easily be read as an argument against censorship.

我感兴趣的是，也是我觉得很多读者应该感兴趣的是,当他们阅读《论出版自由》时，到底是什么允许了，为什么这本著作这么容易就被理解为在批判控制。

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So if we were to spell out the argument somewhat more fully, it might be, "We have free will, but you can't both have free will and be subject to determinism or subject to deterministic laws."

因此我们要更完整地阐述这个论证的话,它应该是,人有自由意志,但人不能既有自由意志,又遵从决定论 或服从确定性的定律

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