充满智慧、幽默的哈佛大学公开课-第7讲这是我的土地(2)

财产权某种意义上可以说是先于政治的自然权利。这种权利依附于个体而存在，甚至早于任何政府的建立，甚至早在任何议会和立法机关制定法律定义权利并强制实施前就已存在。
Locke says in order to think about what it means to have a natural right, we have to imagine the way things are before government, before law, and that"s what Locke means by the state of nature. He says the state of nature is a state of liberty.
洛克说，为了理解拥有自然权利意味着什么，得先想象下政府与法律存在之前事物的运作方式，即洛克所说的自然状态。他说自然状态就是一种自由状态。
Human beings are free and equal beings. There is no natural hierarchy.
每个人都是自由而平等的。自然状态下没有等级制度。
It"s not the case that some people are born to be kings and others are born to be serfs. We are free and equal in the state of nature and yet, he makes the point that there is a difference between a state of liberty and a state of license.
并不是一些人天生就是君王而另一些人天生就是奴隶。每个人在自然状态下都是自由而平等的，但是他同时指出，自由状态和放纵状态是有区别的。
And the reason is that even in the state of nature, there is a kind of law. It"s not the kind of law that legislatures enact. It"s a law of nature.
因为即使处在自然状态下仍受某种法的约束。不是立法机关制定的法律。而是一种自然法。