It's perfectly impossible, I think, to imagine a stronger statement than this of the authority that Milton gives, the intellectual self-possession that he ascribes, to the individual.

我认为这完全是有可能的，去想一个比弥尔顿,这个理论更有力的论述，他认为每个个人拥有的沉着冷静和泰然自若。

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The type of individual he tried to create, careful, self-interested, risk averse, this has become ? the dominant ethos of our civilization, has it not?

因为他笔下的个人主义，如强调个体利益，风险回避等,已经成为我们文明的主导精神，不是吗？

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Moreover, this self is the agent responsible for the thoughts and actions of an individual to which they are ascribed.

另外，这个self还是对一个个体的,行为和思想负责的代理,这是个实物因此要经受时间。

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It actually, it's been shown, seems to foreshadow the political philosophy of Milton's much younger contemporary, John Locke -- the notion that nature demands that every human individual has just enough, is given just enough to be self-sufficient.

事实上这一论点似乎提前预兆了,比弥尔顿年轻许多的同代人，他们的政治哲学，约翰·洛克--他认为自然要求,每个自然人拥有足够自己使用的，每个人只得到足够自给的就够了。

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His in other words seems to be a highly personal in many ways highly individual quest for self perfection and not a doctrine about the value of freedom of speech in general.

换言之，他崇高的个人,从许多层面来看，是他崇高的个人,追求本身完美，而非关一般,言论自由价值的学说。

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