Well, Miletus was on the main routes to all of the places where advanced knowledge could be found, Mesopotamia, Egypt.

米利都地处所有先进知识传播的主干道,通向美索不达米亚和埃及

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So political philosophy is not just some kind of strange historical appendage attached to the trunk of political science; it is constitutive of its deepest problems.

所以政治哲学并非只是,奇怪的历史附属,依挂在政治科学的大主干上;,它是其最深层问题的本质。

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