So what this line of reasoning brings us to is the fundamental principle that underlies the libertarian case for rights.

这些推理把我们带回到,自由主义的权利主张,所隐含的基本原则。

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This, in many ways arguably, makes him the founding father or maybe we should say godfather of modern liberalism, the importance given to rights over duties, of the individual over in many ways the collective or common good.

正是这个稍带争议的观点,使他成了现代自由主义的奠基人,甚至可以说是创始人,因为个人权力优先于义务就意味着,个人利益将优先于集体利益。

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