Plato's excessive emphasis on unity would seem to destroy the natural diversity of human beings that make up a city.

柏拉图过度地强调和谐,似乎会摧毁,构成城市的自然人性差异。

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How, in other words, can it be put to political purposes if there is this underlying, implicit centrism in this notion of reconciliation, harmonization, and balance?

也就是说,文学既然强调和谐和平衡,又怎么能用于政治目的呢？

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Later in the Republic you will see, not that much later even, Socrates will argue that the best city may be characterized by peace and harmony at home, but this will never be so for relations between states.

稍后在《理想国》中就会读到，而且就快读到了，苏格拉底会强调,最优的城市特点是,举国和平与和谐，但永远不存在于,国际关系之中。

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