Eight features of literary modernism: An obsession with the idea of art's autonomy, the idea that art is its own law, that it responds to no other laws, that it has no other purpose than its own purposes.

第一，对艺术意志自由问题的困扰,对艺术是自身的法律，它不响应其他准则,它只有本身这唯一的目的，也就是说。

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that the problem of free will and foreknowledge puts us in.

关于自由意志和先知的问题把我们套了进去。

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Among the great thinkers there is profound disagreement over the answers to even the most fundamental questions concerning justice concerning rights concerning liberty.

伟大的思想家之间,对答案却总有着深刻的意见相左,甚至是对于最基本的问题,像是有关正义，权利和自由。

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But other people, in fact probably a larger percentage, default to the top option here: that these are personal health issues rather then public health issues; that people are making choices about what they eat, if they make bad choices it's their fault.

不过另一些人,确切说是很大一部分人,把问题归咎于以上几个选项,这是个人健康问题而不是公共健康问题,人们自由选择想吃的东西,即使做了不正确的选择也是他们自己的错

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The issue of psychopathy, of people who, either due to brain damage or because they are born that way, have no moral understanding, can help us cope with questions of free will and responsibility; of the relationship or difference between mental illness and evil.

比如那些精神病人,不论是因为大脑受损而造成的,还是先天性的,并没有道德观念,可以帮助我们研究自由和责任的问题,或是研究心理疾病与邪恶的关系或区别

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This raises a question. Whether the relation between contemporary political science and liberalism is merely accidental or whether there is some intrinsic some necessary connection between them.

这导出一个问题，当代政治科学,与自由主义的关系仅是偶然,或之间，有些本质的,一些必然的,连结介于两者之间。

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