来自《哈佛大学公共课-公正：该如何做是好 第11集》

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  or of tradition or of inherited status
  历史的纽带所束缚 也不被传统
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  that we haven't chosen for ourselves,
  和与生俱来的身份所约束
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  and so we're unbound by any moral ties prior to our choosing them.
  所以在选择之前 我们不被任何道德准绳所制约
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  And that means
  这就意味着
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  that means that we are free and independent sovereign selves.
  意味着我们是有自主权的自由独立的个体
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  We're the authors of the only obligations that constrain us.
  只有我们能够约束自己的行为
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  The communitarian critics of Kantian and Rawlsian liberalism
  社群主义者针对康德和劳尔斯的自由主义
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  acknowledge that there is something powerful
  所做的批评承认这样的自由
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  and inspiring in that account of freedom,
  这种可以自主选择自我的自由
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  the free independent choosing self,
  强大并鼓舞人心
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  but they argue it misses something.
  但他们称这一理论仍有所缺失
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  It misses a whole dimension of moral life and even political life.
  即道德生活和政治生活的全面性