来自《哈佛大学公共课-公正：该如何做是好 第6集》

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  It makes us something more than just physical creatures with appetites.
  让我们不再是只拥有欲望的生物
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  Now, we often think of freedom as simply consisting in doing what we want
  我们通常认为 自由就是按照自己意愿行事
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  or in the absence of obstacles to getting what we want,
  或是没有障碍地得到我们想得到的
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  that's one way of thinking about freedom.
  这是我们对自由的一种看法
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  But this isn't Kant's idea of freedom.
  但康德对自由却另有看法
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  Kant has a more stringent demanding notion of what it means to be free.
  康德对何谓自由 有更加严苛的定义
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  And though it's stringent and demanding,
  虽然很严格也很苛刻
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  if you think it through, it's actually pretty persuasive.
  但仔细想 就会发现它颇具说服力
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  Kant reasons as follows:
  康德的推理如下
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  when we, like animals, seek after pleasure
  当我们 像动物一样寻求快乐
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  or the satisfaction of our desires or the avoidance of pain,
  或满足欲望 或逃避痛苦的时候
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  when we do that we aren't really acting freely.
  我们做这些时 并不是真正地在自由行动