In other words, we no longer say, "How does the author exert autonomous will with respect to the subject matter being expressed?"

换言之，我们不会再说，“作者是如何在尊重所要表达的主题的前提下,把独立的意愿加进去的？“

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Milton -- and we know this -- Milton was a political revolutionary, and when he anticipated writing the great poem, he consistently imagined that it would be a poem on a nationalist theme.

弥尔顿--我们知道--是个政治革命家，一直以来他所预想的这首伟大诗歌，的主题应该是民族主义的。

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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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This is the theme of every great moralist from Spinoza to Kant to Freud.

这是每一位崇高道德家所关心的主题,从斯宾诺沙到康德再到佛洛伊德。

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Is it a book about what we today might call moral psychology ? and the right ordering of the human soul, which is a prominent theme addressed in this work?

或是一本,我们在今日所谓道德心理学,及人类灵魂之正义规范的书，因这些重要的主题正是本作品所大量陈述？

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And again, recall this is the theme raised at the beginning of Book II by Adeimantus, who puts forward an idea of self-control, or what he calls self-guardianship as his goal.

不要忘了这个主题是在,第，II册一开始时由，Adeimantus，所提出，他带进了自控的概念，或他称为作为个人目标的自我守护。

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There is obviously much in the American regime that Aristotle would have found admirable even though it does not conform to his idea of the best regime which is the subject of the last two books of the Politics Book VII and VIII.

明显地,美式政体有许多,是亚里士多德仍会觉得值得赞扬的,虽然那并未符合,他的最佳政体概念,而这正是《政治学》最后两册,第，VII，及，VIII，册,所集中探讨的主题。

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