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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It is only in the state of nature, he tells us, that individuals have the right to determine just and unjust, right and wrong for themselves.

他认为，只有在自然社会中，个人才有权力决定,什么是公正，不公正，什么是对什么是错。

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Maybe the question is, ? what makes legitimate authority possible?

或许这个问题是，是什么使得合法的权力成为可能？

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There is for Hobbes, as for Thrasymachus, no higher court of appeal than the will or the word of the sovereign, no transcendent law, no divine law, no source of authority outside sovereign command.

对霍布斯和特拉西马库斯而言，根本不存在能高过君主意愿,和言辞的上诉法院，更没有什么卓绝或是神圣的法律,以及其他权力是可以高于君主的命令的。

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