This week,a probe by the European Union found Sri Lanka in breach of human rights laws during the military campaign to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.

他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等

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But those human laws are only legitimate if they respect our natural rights, if they respect our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.

但这些人类法律合法的唯一前提,就是尊重我们的自然权利，尊重我们不可剥夺的生命，自由和财产权。

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When it comes to differences of human rights and religious practices, so Claims and Conflict, people in different disciplines say "We need stronger laws, we need this, we need that."

当说到人权问题和宗教实践,在各国的不同时，也就是所谓的“冲突中的观点“,持有不同观点的人都会说,“我们需要更完备的法律，需要这个，需要那个“

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He was also a major figure in the Legal Realism school that recognized human failings and human behavior and the establishment of laws.

他同时也是法律现实主义学派的代表人物,该学派承认人性弱点和人们的行为,以及制定法律的重要性

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There is a kind of internal irony here, I think because Hobbes sometimes writes as if, as we've seen, as if human beings are nothing more than complex machines that mechanically obey the laws of attraction and repulsion.

但我想这儿似乎存在着一种讽刺,因为霍布斯笔下的人，似乎就只是一具复杂的机器,只知机械地遵循法律所允许和不允许的事,这点我们在前面已有所耳闻。

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We know that the way we enter into society is by consent, by agreement to leave the state of nature and to be governed by the majority and by a system of laws, human laws.

众所周知，只有经过同意，才能进入社会,才能脱离自然状态，并被大多数人,被人类法律体系所管辖。

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It's not the question right now that human rights laws aren't adequate. They are beautiful!

现在，并不存在“人权法是不完整的“,这种问题，相反，它们是非常棒的！

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It is a right that attaches to individuals as human beings, even before government comes on the scene, even before parliaments and legislatures enact laws to define rights and to enforce them.

这种权利依附于个体而存在，甚至早于任何政府的建立，甚至早在任何议会和立法机关,制定法律定义权利并强制实施前，就已存在。

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This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.

这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。

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That's how he often writes about human behavior, that we obey the same laws of physical attraction as do any other bodies that we might choose to describe. They describe how bodies in motion always and necessarily behave, these laws of nature.

这是他经常说的人类行为，我们遵守同样的物质吸引的法则,其他人也一样,他们描述运动中的身体,经常而且肯定会，体现出自然法。

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