Or is it a book about ? metaphysics and the ultimate structure of being, as certainly many of the later books of the Republic suggest?

亦或是本关于,形上学及存在之极致架构的书，就如同往后许多,诠译《理想国》的书籍所论及的？

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In the first place, what I want to impress upon you is that the sovereign is for Hobbes less a person than it is or he is an office.

首先，我要让你们明白，霍布斯所论及的君主,不只是一个拥有公职权力的人,更不是一个普通单纯的个人。

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And what I want to do now is illustrate a case study of what I mean by nature constrained and why it is so important for happiness, for wellbeing, for long-term success to have the constrained view of human nature when it comes to our psychology that is.

现在我想演示一个案例研究,说明我所谓的本性受约束的含义,为何它对快乐，幸福，长久的成功如此重要,当论及到我们的心理时,人性受约束观点很重要。

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Common ownership, Aristotle argues, will mean a sort of common neglect.

亚里士多德论及，共同所有权等同于一种共同的疏漏。

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