Perhaps we should airlift copies of Leviathan to them, because that is the issue that Hobbes is fundamentally concerned with.

也许我们可以给他们空投好多份《利维坦》,因为正是这个问题,正是霍布斯关心的基本问题。

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In the case of Leviathan, I would suggest to you, Hobbes' central question is, ? what makes authority possible?

至于《利维坦》，我要向你们说明，霍布斯的中心问题是，是什么使得权力成为可能？

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For many today, Hobbes' conception of the Leviathan state is synonymous with anti-liberal absolutism.

对今天许多的学者而言,霍布斯在《利维坦》中的政治主张,就是反自由主义之专制主义的代名词。

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Does Hobbes' emphasis on the preservation of life as the supreme moral value, does this turn his mighty Leviathan into ? a kind of commonwealth of cowards?

霍布斯重视保护生命,把生命视为最高道德价值，这不是使强大的利维坦,变成了一个懦夫的联邦吗？

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Hobbes returned to England the same year of the book's publication, and spent most of the rest of his long life, Leviathan was written well into his 60s.

霍布斯回到了英国,在他书出版的那年，他度过了他剩下的漫长的时光，《利维坦》在他60多岁的时候写成。

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Hobbes may, I think, overestimate or maybe I really should say underestimate the difficulty of the book but he returns to this again at the very end of Leviathan.

我认为霍布斯高估了自己,或者准确地说是他低估了现实的困境,所以他在《利维坦》结尾部分,再次回到了这个问题上。

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From one point of view, reading Hobbes, his account of the state of nature seems to derive from his physics of motion and rest, in the opening chapters of Leviathan.

一方面，阅读霍布斯，他关于自然状态的解释似乎,来源于他关于运动和静止的物理学，这也在《利维坦》的开篇章节。

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It is most of all pride that Hobbes wants to tame and of course the very title of his book, Leviathan, ? he tell us later on comes from what?

霍布斯想要控制几乎所有的傲骄,和这本书的题目《利维坦》,他后来给我们说的出自哪里？

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In a chapter called, "Of the Office of the Sovereign Representative," Hobbes argues that justice be equally administered to all classes of people, rich, as well as poor, equal application of justice.

在《利维坦》,《论君主代表者指责》这一章里“,霍布斯认为司法应当让全体国民平等享有,穷人富人都应当一视同仁，也就是今天讲的司法同等适用。

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