Hegel believed that humans and their activities were just tools used by rationality to achieve its own, which means the so-called rational ingenuity and human freedom were only rational freedom.

黑格尔认为，人类及其活动不过是理性借以实现自身的工具，即所谓理性的机巧，人类自由因此不过是理性的自由。

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How is it that some people came to acquire this capacity for rational self-control that is necessary for freedom? And others seem to lack it?

为何有些人，会拥有这种理性自控的能力，那也是自由的必备条件，但有些人却似乎不具备这种能力？

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However, due to the moral law is an undeniable rational fact, so freedom must belong to the will of man, but not purely assumption.

然而，由于道德律是一个不可否认的理性方面的事实，因此自由一定属于人的意志，而不纯粹是一个假定。

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How is it that some people came to acquire this capacity for rational self-control that is necessary for freedom ? and others seem to lack it?

为何有些人,会拥有这种理性自控的能力,那也是自由的必备条件,但有些人却似乎不具备这种能力？

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That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle.

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The most rational reaction came from Index on Censorship, which declared the deal "a sad day for press freedom in the UK".

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