Now, as I mentioned, the official purpose of the tract is the political subject of licensing.

现在，就像我提到的，宣传小册子最正式的目的就是支持出版许可这个政治主题。

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How, in other words, can it be put to political purposes if there is this underlying, implicit centrism in this notion of reconciliation, harmonization, and balance?

也就是说,文学既然强调和谐和平衡,又怎么能用于政治目的呢？

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What is the goal or purpose ? of the study of politics and what is distinctive about Aristotle's approach ? to the study of political things?

研究政治的,目标与目的为何,亚里士多德学习,政治事务方法的,最大不同点为何？

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The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss for all of humanity, and at the base, at the root of that civilization stood the Greeks.

如果出于政治的目的而对此段历史,视而不见甚至完全摒弃,这对全人类,将是一个巨大的损失,追根溯源,这一切都根植于希腊文明

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For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is to mediate the causes of faction to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.

对亚里士多德而言,政治科学的论点与目的,是要调解形成派系的起因,避免派系形成，因那会导致革新与内战。

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All political action aims at preservation or change.

所有的政治行动,都是以保守或变革为目的。

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If wealth were the purpose of politics Aristotle writes the Phoenicians you might say in the ancient world -the Phoenicians were the commercial people par excellence the Phoenicians would be the best regime.

后者是著名《富国论》的作者,亚里士多德写到,如果财富是政治的目的,则你可以说，腓尼基人,远古世界最优秀的商人,腓尼基人治理的是最佳政体。

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