Jefferson:"Northerners are cool, sober, laborious, persevering, independent, jealous of their own liberties, chicaning, superstitious, and hypocritical in their religion."
杰斐逊说,"北方人冷静,稳重,勤劳,坚毅,独立,珍惜自身的自由,奸诈,迷信,还假装是虔诚宗教信徒"
Aristotle and Thomas Jefferson seem to disagree over the basic fact of human experience, whether it's equality or inequality.
亚里士多德和杰佛逊似乎对基本的,人类经历的事实有着不同看法,无论那是平等或不平等。
Jefferson and his colleagues could confidently proclaim their political rights as being colleague and the gift of a creator.
杰斐逊和他的同僚宣称,他们的政治权利是不言自明的,是造物主所赐予的
Philosophers who help this position: people like Thomas Jefferson, George Bernard Shaw, Ronald Dworkin and other leading thinkers.
致力于此的哲学家:,有托马斯杰斐逊,萧伯纳,德沃金及其他杰出思想家。
And none other than Thomas Jefferson himself left this famous description of characterizations of Southerners and Northerners.
最有代表性的便是托马斯·杰斐逊他本人,用这么一段人们耳熟能详的话,描述了南方人与北方人的不同特征
Unalienable rights to life, liberty, and as Jefferson amended Locke, to the pursuit of happiness. Unalienable rights.
生命与自由不可剥夺,还在洛克基础上加上了,追求幸福的权利,都是不可剥夺的权利。
There's a very good reason Jefferson Davis becomes president of the confederacy in 1860.
杰斐逊·戴维斯之所以能在1860年,成为南部邦联总统
Of course Jefferson Davis really preferred to be a military officer and went to West Point and on and on and on, and the rest is history.
当然,杰斐逊·戴维斯,更愿意成为军官,因此去了西点军校学习等等,他余下的生活就如历史所述
That's this powerful idea taken over from Locke by Jefferson in the Declaration.
这就是杰斐逊在《自由宣言》里所引用的,洛克的一个强而有力的主张。
Jefferson Davis is, in fact, a classic example of the cotton boom planter.
实际上,杰斐逊·戴维斯,是棉花种植者暴富的典型例子
And Hammond even aggressively, directly, took on Thomas Jefferson.
哈蒙德甚至更加激进,直接地挑战托马斯·杰斐逊总统
And Thomas Jefferson described the people of the North this was in the 1780s now, this is before the cotton boom and all that he described the people of the North this way.
托马斯杰斐逊描述了北方人民,那时候是十八世纪八十年代,还是在棉花产业兴盛之前,他是这么形容北方人的
But in their worldview, the pro-slavery worldview, ideas like freedom and liberty were simply never absolutes, and many of them will directly reverse Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and simply say, "Nobody is born equal."
但是在他们的世界观中,亲奴主义者的世界观中,自由和解放的理想永远不是绝对的,他们中许多人,直接颠覆了托马斯杰斐逊的独立宣言,他们说,没有人是生来平等的
And Jefferson Davis went out to join him, and Jefferson Davis became a millionaire.
杰斐逊·戴维斯投靠了他,并因此成为了百万富翁
Hector Davis owned a two-story slave auction house and jail on 14th and Franklin Streets, just two blocks down the hill from Thomas Jefferson's glorious capitol building of the State of Virginia.
赫克托·戴维斯,在第十四和富兰克林大街,拥有一栋两层的奴隶拍卖行及监狱,仅仅距离托马斯·杰斐逊,那雄伟的弗吉尼亚州议会大厦,向山下两个街区远
Now we can debate what Jefferson got right or wrong there, or what's held up, but do note how he said both sides were either jealous or zealous of their own liberties.
现在我们讨论下他说的哪些对哪些不对,或者哪些还未有定论,但是请注意他提到双方对于自由态度是,用词的区别,一方珍惜一方热衷
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