The question we're left with, the fundamental question we still haven't answered is what then becomes of consent?

剩下的就是最基本的问题,我们仍未解答,究竟同意是什么？

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That seems to me to be in some ways the fundamental question that ?! the Apology asks us to consider. Okay?

那在我看来，从某个层面来说,是《苏格拉底自辩篇》,要我们思索的基本问题，好吗？

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That remains not only the fundamental question for Hobbes, but for the entire, at least for the entire social contract tradition that he helped to establish.

这已不仅仅停留在,霍布斯的基本问题上，从整体来说，至少是从霍布斯帮助建立的,整个社会契约的传统上。

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Perhaps the oldest and most fundamental question that I wish to examine in the course ? of this semester is the question: what is a regime?

或许那些最古老与最基础的问题,也是我希望在本学期课堂上,探究的问题是，何谓政体？

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This is in many ways for Socrates the fundamental political question of all times.

这在很多层面上对苏格拉底,都是基本的恒时政治问题。

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No no question that I can think of can be more fundamental. And this finally raises the question of the relation between the best regime or the good regime and what we could say are actually existing regimes regimes that we are all familiar with.

不，我想不出其它,更基础的问题,而这将带出一个问题,即最优政体与好政体之间的关系,及我们实际上可说的是，现存的政体,那个我们都非常熟悉的政体。

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