But the great thinkers were very far from being just so to speak detached intellectuals.

但是伟大思想家根本不是,所谓的隐世知识分子。

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Among the great thinkers there is profound disagreement over the answers to even the most fundamental questions concerning justice concerning rights concerning liberty.

伟大的思想家之间,对答案却总有着深刻的意见相左,甚至是对于最基本的问题,像是有关正义，权利和自由。

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How would you have had the great Roman philosophers and thinkers?

伟大的罗马哲学家和思想家又是怎么来的

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Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?

这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧？

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So the great political thinkers were typically engaged in the politics of their times and help in that way to provide us okay with models for how we might think about ours.

所以伟大的思想家,总会涉及他们当代的政治,并以此帮忙想出一些模式,让我们可以自省。

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Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

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