So Roman slavery and the freedom of that was actually one way that a few people in the Ancient World recognized some kind of social mobility, which was very rare in the Roman Empire.

所以罗马奴隶制以及奴隶释放制,被古代部分人认为是,某种社会阶级流动，在罗马帝国很少见。

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That kind of gives people the freedom to understand and know what's going on.

让这些人也能有机会知道并理解世界发生的事情。

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It seems to me to be evident that whatever it's other characteristics, the West has created institutions of government and law that provide unprecedented freedom for its people.

在我看来,很显然,就算各国国情千秋百态,但西方建立的政府机构与设立的法律制度,都给与其治下的公民史无前例的自由

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Since they are sentient, free creatures, they should have a right to do whatever they want unless there is a compelling argument against it and a compelling argument would have to involve some infringement of the freedom of other people.

因为他们都是有知觉的自由个体，他们有权做他们想做的事,除非有非常强烈的理由反对他们这么做,而这种强烈的理由是指,这种行为会侵害另一个人的自由。

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Spinoza taking him, taking his book to be a warning to the people about the dangers of princely rule, Rousseau believing that he had deliberately disguised his love of freedom because he had to appeal to the tyrannical nature of the Medici family.

斯宾诺莎把他看作，把他的书看作是,告诫人们提防君主统治危险性的警告，卢梭认为他是故意,伪装他对自由的热爱的，因为他不得不,投合具有暴君本性的美第奇家族的口味。

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Individual freedom, although it has greatly elevated the condition of the people who have lived in free societies, inevitably permits inequalities which are the more galling, because each person is plainly free to try to improve his situation and largely responsible for the outcome.

个人自由的理念,虽然提升了自由社会中人们,的生活条件,但是不可避免的会产生烦恼和更多的焦虑,因为每个人都有极大的自由去,提升自己的生活状态,并对自己的所作所负有极大的责任

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