And, what they were trying to do was imagine a new world which would be less centralized; but, for the socialists, they wanted more centralization.

他们留下的目的就是,能生活在一个没有中央集权的社会中,但是,对于社会主义者来说则正相反

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The Iliad,which is about a war, immediately is a kind of an artificial society put together for the purpose of defeating the Trojans and taking their city.

伊利亚特 》,作为描述战争的史诗,直接就是一个集合的虚构社会,目的是为了击败特洛伊人并占有他们的城邦

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The aim of the Republic is to establish a harmonious city, based on a conception of justice that, so to speak, harmonizes the individual and society, how to achieve that.

理想国》的主要目的,是要建立一座和谐的城邦，其基础概念是正义，也可以说是要协调个人与社会，及陈述达成目的的方法。

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"The supreme power," By which Locke means the legislature, "Cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent, for the preservation of property being the end of government and that for which men enter into society, " it necessarily supposes and requires that people should have property."

最高权力“,这里洛克指的是立法机关，“未经本人同意，不能取去任何人财产的任何部分，因为，既然保护财产是政府的目的,也是人们加入社会的目的，这就必然假定而且要求人民应该享有财产权“

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