It represents the moment in the life of Socrates where he turns away from the investigation of natural phenomena to the study of the human and political things the moral and political things.

它代表着苏格拉底生命中,从调查自然现象,转向研究,人类与政治事务,即道德与政治事务。

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The one point of view takes the philosophic life, the examined life, to be the one most worth living; the other takes the political life, the life of the citizen engaged in the business of deliberating, legislating, making war and peace as the highest calling for a human being.

一个观点为采纳哲思生活，经反省的人生才值得活;,另一个观点为采纳政治生活，公民的生命并入,商议，立法事务，宣战与追求和平,成为最高的人性召唤。

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