That is to say, theory has certain ambitions to a totalization of what can be thought that resembles or rivals philosophy.

也就是说，理论探讨的问题,与哲学相似或相媲美,而且倾向于把它完整化。

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A couple of other English political philosophers, Hobbs and Locke, applied a similar novelty and modernity to the sphere of politics.

其他的一些英国政治哲学家们,霍布斯和洛克,在政治领域,应用了相似的新理论

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Geoffrey Hartman's theory had a similar tendency to align the poem with a kind of a religious orthodoxy.

哈特曼的理论有着相似的趋势,给这首诗附加上一种宗教上的正统思想。

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Now theory resembles philosophy perhaps in this: that it asks fundamental questions and also at times builds systems.

理论和哲学的相似之处在于：,它探讨根本性的问题，而且有时也建立系统。

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And it might occur to some of you that this seems to be an analogy with the Darwinian theory of natural selection where there's a random assortment of random mutations.

也许你们之中会有人觉得,这和达尔文的自然选择理论,看上去很相似,自然选择就是随机突变的随机分配。

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In many ways Aristotle there offers, as does Plato, a certain kind of critique of the modern or even the ancient democratic theory of freedom, which is living as one likes.

亚里士多德在很多方面所提出的和柏拉图相似，都是一种对现代,或甚至古代自由民主理论的评判，也就是过一个人想过的生活。

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It's a course which is absolutely fascinating in all sorts of ways, and it has one very important thing in common with literary theory: that is to say, literary criticism is, too, perpetually concerned with the definition of literature.

这门课在各方面都很棒，而且它与文学理论有一个重要的相似之处：,即文学评论也永远会关注，文学的定义问题。

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