Every other book in this political science that has since been written, beginning with Aristotle's Politics and moving on to the present day is, in one way or another, an answer, a response to Plato's Republic.

这门政治科学,所用的其它现存读物，从亚里士多德的《政治学》,一直到今日的其它著作，多少都只是，对柏拉图的《理想国》回答或响应。

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