To be sure, Machiavelli focuses on key aspects of political reality which are often ignored by thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.

事实上马奇亚维利所专注的,政治现实观点,是其它思想家所常遗漏,像柏拉图和亚里士多德。

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Well, that's not the way it is with the modern world and that's not the way it comes out of the enlightenment, the individual is the ultimate.

这和现代世界的观点不同,和启蒙时期的思想成就不同,他们认为个人利益至上

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