"Frankly I believe that the president deserves the right to absorb the assessment himself and have his questions and my questions and others' questions relating to the assessment answered,".

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Some others If I might have a right to X, do you have a duty to fulfill that for me?

其他的像如果我有某项权利，你有没有义务帮我实现？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Of course, as you have guessed, the good reader is the one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary and some artistic sense, which sense I propose to develop in myself and others whenever I have the chance.

当然，就像你们猜到的那样，好读者拥有想像力、好记性、,一本字典和几分艺术感，我建议一有机会,就进行自我及他人的艺术感培养。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I don't think that people should be, should have to convince 280 million others simply in order to exercise their own rights, in order to not have their self ownership violated.

我不认为人们，必须说服其他2亿8千万人,只为了争取自己的权利，只为了保护自我所有权不受侵犯。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

How do I give up my right to do whatever is in my power to secure my person or my possessions, when I have no expectation, you might say, ? that others around me are prepared to do so as well?

我怎么能在我不期望,身边的人会这样做的时候，放弃我保护自身和财产安全，不受侵害的权利？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But within all of these groups is an attempted try to get down something that's so fundamental, and we just have to safeguard. I'm thinking broadly in terms of social justice criteria, others may say human dignity. There're certain things we do to safeguard others' human dignity.

但在所有这些群体中都有一种努力,在尝试着记录下最根本的东西，而我们要做的就是维护，我在广泛思考着,社会正义的标准，其他人可能会说是人的尊严，有些事情,我们会做从而维护他人的尊严。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选