Abstract “Trust” is a keyword in the polemical prose that Milton published during the 1640s and 1650s. Milton sometimes uses it to denote the confidence that God places in man and that government ought to place in the people. He also uses it to describe the crisis of confidence in government that occurred during the reign of Charles I, and to refute Charles’ account of himself as a good king who placed his faith in God. Milton responds to this crisis by presenting a theory of government that has much in common with the theory of entrusted powers that Locke presents in the Second Treatise. But “trust” is also an important component of his effort to justify those men who denied the English populace a range of civil liberties during the 1650s. While he articulates a precedent for modern theories of entrusted powers, Milton thus also expresses a perspective on political life and civil liberty that is anti-democratic and pre-modern.

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米尔顿的信任

摘要 “信任”是弥尔顿在 1640 年代和 1650 年代发表的论战散文中的一个关键词。弥尔顿有时用它来表示上帝对人的信任，以及政府应该对人民的信任。他还用它来描述查理一世统治期间发生的对政府的信任危机，并驳斥了查理自称是一位信仰上帝的好国王。弥尔顿通过提出一种政府理论来应对这场危机，该理论与洛克在第二篇论文中提出的委托权力理论有很多共同之处。但“信任”也是他为那些在 1650 年代否认英国民众一系列公民自由的人辩护的努力的重要组成部分。虽然他阐明了现代委托权力理论的先例，