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There are philosophers who have said we certainly believe that we've got free will, but it's an illusion.
有这样一些哲学家,他们说,我们确实相信自己有自由意志,但这只是一种错觉
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So maybe that's why we need to believe in souls in order to explain free will.
或许我们需要相信灵魂的理由就是,为了便于解释自由意志
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We can say that, but I wonder if it's possible even for these similes to convince us of the easy coexistence of these two incredibly important theological categories, free will and divine foreknowledge.
我们可以说，但是我还是怀疑，这些比喻是否能够,使我们相信如此这种两个太过于重要的相异点,即自由意志和神圣天命，之间的共存性。
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And to say, if we believe in these values, if we believe in liberty and democracy and equality and justice and tolerance and humility and faith, then this is what our foreign policy should look like.
如果我们相信这些价值，如果我们相信自由，民主,公平和正义,以及宽容，谦逊和信仰，那我们的外交政策,也该如此。
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Suppose we do believe in incompatibilism and believe that we've got free will.
假定我们相信不相容论,并认为人有自由意志
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Of course, we mistakenly believe we've got free will.
当然,我们错误地相信自己有自由意志
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There are philosophers-- and here I'll tip my hat and say, I'm one of them--there are philosophers who believe that, in fact, the idea of free will is not incompatible with determinism.
有哲学家,这里我要对他们敬意并声明,我也是他们中的一员,有哲学家相信,事实上,自由意志的观点,和决定论并非是不相容的
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My point here was only to say we shouldn't be so quick to think that we have to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain our having free will.
我的观点不过就是说我们不应该这么草率地,认为我们不得不相信,灵魂的存在,从而解释我们有自由意志
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Paradise Lost as a whole clearly wants us to believe that God has foreknowledge and it also clearly wants us to believe that we have free will, but the similes seem just as often to open up and to question the poem's doctrinal conclusions.
整体来说很清楚地是想让我们相信,上帝具有先知的能力,并且还想让我们相信人生来有自由的意志，但是这些比喻看起来只是为我们揭露,并质疑了诗歌本身的学理上的总结。
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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.
我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实
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