Montazeri was one of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic and remained a top arbiter of Shi'ite law.

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Even religious truths, which, of course, even religious truths have to be subjected to the final arbiter, who is the individual's conscience and the individual's power of reason.

当然，即使是最强有力的知识形式，即使是宗教真理也必须受制于最终的裁决者，也就是个人的良心和推理的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Here's the editor, great editor of the publisher Faber & Faber, thirty years later, or more, surrounded by books, ; the cultural arbiter of the English speaking world; T.S. Eliot at sixty.

0年后，这就是费伯-费伯出版社的大编辑，被成堆的书籍包围着，被视为英语语言世界的文化标尺;,这就是60岁的艾略特。

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