It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

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Where Aristotle made the courage of men in combat a central virtue of his ethics, Hobbes pointedly omits courage from his list of the moral virtues.

亚里士多德把战争中,勇敢的人作为最高美德，而霍布斯恰恰是把勇敢,从美德的列表里删掉了。

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He goes on in a letter in spring 1862 the war still isn't a war against slavery in any official sense and he writes home to his brother saying he wishes he had the, quote, "Moral courage to desert," because he no longer wants to serve this cause.

在1862年春天的信中,从政治角度来说,那还不是真正意义上的反奴战争,他写信给他哥哥说,他希望有点"道德气节",因为他不想再为这理由继续下去

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