It's difficult, philosophy and social thought, but it's not difficult because of the element of surprise.

这很难，哲学和社会思想，但它又并不难在惊讶这个成分。

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as presenting the most intransigent case for the philosopher as a radical critic or questioner of society.

刻划成哲学家中,极端不妥协派的例子,像是社会中的激进评论者或提问者。

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We implicitly demand of expository texts," he goes on to say -and he may be alluding to Gadamer here because after all Gadamer is talking primarily about expository text, works of philosophy, works of social thought, which of course aren't trying to surprise or trick us.

我们暗中希望能得到解释的文本“，他接着说下去,而且他可能在这里提到葛达玛,因为毕竟葛达玛主要研究解释性作品，哲学作品，社会思想作品，这些当然不会试图去令我们惊讶或者是误导我们。

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Political philosophy is the oldest of the social sciences and it can boast a wealth of heavy hitters from Plato and Aristotle to Machiavelli Hobbes Hegel Tocqueville Nietzsche and so on.

政治哲学是社会科学中,最古老的学科,且会触及大量重棒人物,从柏拉图，亚里士多德到马奇亚维利，贺伯斯,及黑格尔，托克维尔，尼采等人。

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The megalopsychos the gentleman whatever else he is is not a philosopher in the strict sense.

这种，Megalopsychos，绅士,以严格的标准看来并非哲学家,从社会学角度看来。

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