In the case of Leviathan, I would suggest to you, Hobbes' central question is, ? what makes authority possible?

至于《利维坦》，我要向你们说明，霍布斯的中心问题是，是什么使得权力成为可能？

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That was an effort to disburse power away from the center.

这是一个从中心,分散权力的努力。

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So Socrates has become a very central symbol of political resistance and resistance to political power and of the dangers to the individual of unchecked rule.

所以，苏格拉底已,成为政治抵抗的中心标志,还有抵抗政治权力,及未受管束之规则对个人的危害。

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