What does Socrates mean when he says his way of life has been devoted almost exclusively ? to private rather than to public matters?

当苏格拉底说,自己的生活方式,只专注在私人而非公共事务时,是什么意思？

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A regime refers to both the formal enumeration of rights and duties within a community but it also addresses something closer to what we would call the way of life or the culture of a people.

政体意指一个社群中,正式的权利与义务项目,但它也同时是指我们所熟悉的事务,诸如生活的模式,与人民的文化。

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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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