Every other book in this political science that has since been written, beginning with Aristotle's Politics and moving on to the present day is, in one way or another, an answer, a response to Plato's Republic.

这门政治科学,所用的其它现存读物，从亚里士多德的《政治学》,一直到今日的其它著作，多少都只是，对柏拉图的《理想国》回答或响应。

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Well, that's something I want you to think about and maybe I'm sure you'll want to talk about in your sections, but let me propose something like the following to answer or at least to respond to this paradox, this question.

这是我要你们思考的问题,我也确定,你们也想要在讨论时段发言，但让我先提出以下这些回答,或至少说是响应这个悖论，这个问题。

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