They take issue with opponents, some of whom invoke images of Nazi Germany and accuse the Obama administration of wanting to trample the Constitution and individual rights.

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What about Mill's attempt to account for the especially weighty character of individual rights and justice in chapter five of Utilitarianism.

那么穆勒在《功利主义》,第五章中提到的,个人权利和公正重要性的解释，又是否成立呢。

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So there may be certain rights that the minority members have that the individual has that shouldn't be traded off for the sake of utility?

所以可能少数人,或个体的某些权利,不该为了功利最大化而被牺牲？

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And his basic rights were seen to be absolute, for nothing must interfere with the right of each individual to defend his life, liberty, and property.

人的基本权利被视作每个个体都绝对拥有的,任何事物都无法干涉的,自卫,自由,财产的权利

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The very idea of individual rights got reshaped by the Market Revolution.

人权的概念,被市场革命所扭曲

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This seems in many ways to be quite far from the American democracy based on constitutional government, systems of checks and balances, protection of individual rights, and so on.

这似乎在很多方面,有别于美式民主,后者的根基是宪制政府，制衡体系，保障个人权利等。

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Going back to the first point that you made about the property rights of individual.

回到你最初提到,关于个人财产权的观点。

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Would it be just to torture the suspect to get the information or do you say no, there is a categorical moral duty of respect for individual rights?

为了拿到情报而对他严刑拷打，是否合理,抑或你不赞同，你认为有尊重个人权利的绝对道德责任？

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It's going to alter the very idea of individual rights.

即将改变的是关于人权这一想法

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One has to do with whether utilitarianism adequately respects individual rights or minority rights, and the other has to do with the whole idea of aggregating utility or preferences or values.

一点是关于，功利主义,是否充分尊重个体和少数的权利，另一点是关于,加总功利，或偏好，或价值的看法。

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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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In 1859, Mill wrote a famous book on liberty, the main point of which was the importance of defending individual rights and minority rights, and in 1861, toward the end of his life, he wrote the book we read as part of this course, "Utilitarianism."

859年穆勒写了本关于自由的名著，书里的主要观点是,争取个体和少数群体权利的重要性，1861年，在晚年时期，他写了《功利主义》，这也属于本课的阅读资料“

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We have a habit in this society to think that individual rights, when they drafted the Bill of Rights, was just laid down for us and it's just traveled through time and here they are.

在这个社会中我们习惯于思考人权问题,创始人们起草了《权利法案》,这份草案被我们所珍藏的,历尽世事变迁仍在这里

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