So last time we introduced a new idea and the new idea was that of best response.
上一讲我们引入了一个新概念,这个新概念就是最佳对策
The Republic is a book about the regime and all later political philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato and that means that it must provide a series of variations so to speak on Plato's conception of the best regime.
理想国》是一本关于政体的书,之后所有的政治哲学都不过是一系列,对柏拉图的批注,也就是说,它必需提供,一系列的差异来解释,柏拉图概念中的最佳政体。
What about the fact that-- We said there's a family of arguments, all of which have the general structure, inference to the best explanation, you need souls in order to explain feature F. Plug in a different feature F and you get a new argument.
这个事实怎么样,我们说过有一大类观点,它们有一些共同的结构,有关于这个最佳解释的推论,需要用灵魂的概念,来解释功能特征F,代入一个不同的,功能特征就会得到一个新的论点
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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