The philosophic city is introduced as a metaphor to help us understand the education of the soul.

哲学之城的导入,是要作为一种隐喻,协助我们了解灵魂的教育。

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Maybe you want to argue it and we could have a discussion, but it might mean that American democracy, or democracy of any kind, helps to produce a particular kind of democratic soul.

也许你想争辩，果真如此,我们可以另作讨论，但那也许意谓着,美式民主，或任何一种民主，协助产生了,特定种类的民主灵魂。

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