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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We are political animals, he says, because participation in the life of the city is necessary for the achievement of human excellence, for the achievement of our well-being.

他说，我们是政治动物，因为参与城市生活,才能达致,人类卓越，也才能达致我们的福祉。

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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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