Milton opens up a shady space for something approaching a kind of moral relativism where black and white theological categories simply don't apply.

弥尔顿为接近道德上的相对主义,即黑和白之间的区分已经无法简单的适用,开创了先河。

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And yet for others, he opened the door to John Locke and the liberal theory of government.

对其他人而言，他却为洛克的思想,以及政府自由主义理论开创了先河。

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