A lot has happened since the exuberant optimism of the political spirit that we see in a tract like Areopagitica.

弥尔顿在《论出版自由》中发表了极为乐观的政治思想之后,政治形势发生了很大变化。

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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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Both shared, both sides, the leadership of both sides, shared a rich kind of nationalism about this American experiment.

双方,双方的领袖,关于这场美国政治改革,都有着同样浓厚的民族主义思想

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I would even say the necessary and inevitable conflict between the freedom of the mind and the requirements of political life.

我甚至会说，这是必需,且无可避免的冲突，介于,思想自由与政治生活条件之间。

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This is how he sees it, that it should be taught from the pulpit.

这是霍布斯逐渐意识到的，他的政治思想当通过教会和大学来传播。

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So the great political thinkers were typically engaged in the politics of their times and help in that way to provide us okay with models for how we might think about ours.

所以伟大的思想家,总会涉及他们当代的政治,并以此帮忙想出一些模式,让我们可以自省。

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Are these two things are these two goods as it were freedom of mind and political life ? are they compatible or are they necessarily ? at odds with one another?

这两件事，或可以说是这两项本领,思想自由与政治生活,能共处吗,或者是必然的死对头？

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This is a problem that we will see considerably later in the term that vexes a very important political thinker by the name of Hobbes about whether an individual can somehow put their own sense of conscience or moral integrity even above the law.

这是个我们,稍后会仔细探讨的问题,也是让这位重要政治思想家,贺伯斯大力争论的问题,他质疑个人,是否可以将其自身的道义感,或道德正直置于法律之上。

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His idea of regime politea again the same word the same word that was used for the title of Plato's Republic is the centerpiece of Aristotle's politics literally.

他的政体概念，Politea，是同义字,且这个字还用于,柏拉图的《理想国》，而那可说就是,亚里士多德政治理念的中心思想。

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