We can have a civil science, because politics is a matter of human making, of human doing, of human goings on.

我们能够拥有民间科学，因为政治关系到人类的产生，人类的生存，人类的延续。

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This tension of course between the best regime and any actual regime is the space that makes political philosophy possible.

张力当然存在于最优政体与现行政体之间,而那正是政治哲学,得以生存的地带。

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