For Plato, it would seem, the study of politics was always bound up with deeply philosophical and speculative questions, questions of metaphysics, questions of the structure of the cosmos.

对柏拉图而言，那会看似学习政治学,永远是会深刻地,和哲学式与思索类的问题连结在一起，形上学的问题，宇宙结构的问题。

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He tells a story about something he calls "the state of nature," a term he did not invent, but with which his name will always and forever be associated, the idea of the state of nature.

他讲了一个故事，叫做,“自然状态“，这不是他所发明的词，但他的名字,总是会，也永远会和，“自然状态“联系在一起。

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