Or if you didn't believe in God,

或许你也不信仰上帝
this was just a natural right.

那么这些就是所谓的天赋人权
Nature gave each individual the right to

自然赋予每个个体以
life, liberty, property,

生命权自由权和财产权
and nobody could take these away legitimately.

没有人有权力剥夺
Well, the Greeks had no concept of natural rights,

当然古希腊人没有自然权利
or of rights that human beings were given by the gods.

或者天赋人权的概念
That is a very important difference

这也是个非常重要的区别
that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent,

你得活出体面来
and for the Greeks that always meant

对于古希腊人而言就是
being part of a decent community, the polis.

成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分
But the modern world, to get back to that,

但是回到现代社会