Hobbes provided us with the definitive language in which even today we continue to speak about the modern state.

霍布斯提供了一种权威性的概念,而直到今天,我们依然用它来描述现代国家。

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There is a return to these kinds of theoretical defences of absolutism that even preceded the growth of the absolute state as I've described it.

有一点需注意,对于绝对主义的理论辩护,甚至早于绝对主义国家的兴起,之前我已经描述过这个过程

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