Today we are free." "We believe as our ancestors believed.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

And this law of nature constrains what we can do even though we are free, even though we are in the state of nature.

这种自然法制约着我们的行为,即便我们是自由的，即便是在自然状态下。

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We are free to the extent that we can act in an unimpeded manner.

在所允许的限度里,我们可以无拘束地任何想做的事。

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"We in Italy,or in Europe,I think, we have a more free environment, if I can say this, because we are in touch with a lot of different things that are outside the school.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

We are free and equal in the state of nature he makes the point that there is a difference between a state of liberty and a state of license.

每个人在自然状态下都是自由而平等的,他同时指出，自由状态,和放纵状态是有区别的。

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"We are working with our partners to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to seek a world free of nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

There are philosophers who have said we certainly believe that we've got free will, but it's an illusion.

有这样一些哲学家,他们说,我们确实相信自己有自由意志,但这只是一种错觉

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"Well,regrettably, people are not freed or free from fear because we are dealing with a non-democratic system,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The Corinthians are free; they will be violating no law or sacred bond if they say, sorry we really don't feel like doing that.

科林斯人可以自由选择,帮还是不帮,如果他们说对不起,我们不想帮忙,他们没有违反任何法律或某种神圣约束

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

He says if we fail, then they are free to continue the drone attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

We have other--lots of data sources-- that Yale subscribes to and there are lots of free data sources, but Wall Street Journal Online is not free.

我们也有很多其他数据来源,耶鲁订阅了不少,并且还有免费信息,但《华尔街日报在线》是收费的

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"But what we showed here is that we can make progress when we are willing to break free from some of the stale debates and old ideologies that have dominated and distorted the debate in this hemisphere for far too long,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

And once we rid ourselves of the burden of historicity, we're free to appreciate the stories for what they are: powerful, powerful narratives that must be read against the literary conventions of their time, and whose truths are social, political, moral and existential.

曾经我们将自己从史实性的负担中解放出来，我们,以故事原本的样子自由地欣赏它们：强大的，强大的叙事,必须能冲破那个时代的文学惯例和社会、政治、,道德及实存的真实而被解读。

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We are physical objects that labor under the illusion that we have free will, but after all, free will isn't something that you can just see, right?

我们生活在人有自由意志,这样的错觉下,但毕竟,自由意志不是那种可以看得到的东西,对吧

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So even if it does turn out that you can't have free will and determinism, that doesn't rule out the possibility that we are purely physical objects, because not all purely physical systems are subject to determinism.

因此即使最终证实,你不能同时拥有自由意志和遵从决定论,也不能排除我们是纯粹,物理实体的可能性,因为并不是所有的纯粹物理系统,都遵从决定论

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As I say, there are philosophers who've argued that way, have denied that we have free will and if we do conclude that we don't actually have free will, then we no longer have this argument for the existence of a soul.

有哲学家按照这种思路,否定了人有自由意志,如果我们由此得出,人没有自由意志这个结论,那么这个论证也不再,支持灵魂存在这个说法

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Now, if we push the dualist to explain what is it about free will that rules out the possibility that we are merely physical objects, I think the natural suggestion to spell out the argument goes like this, and this is where we were at the end of last time.

现在如果我们让二元论者去解释,什么是自由意志,它又是如何否定,人仅仅是物理实体这种可能性的,我认为他们自然会这样,阐述这个论证,这是就我们在上节课结束时讲到的内容

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