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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Because, uh, it's one thing to study something in a cold, academic way,

干巴巴的、枯燥的纯理论式学习是一种学习方法，

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