The rescue operation to free him, approved at the highest levels of the British government, is being criticized in both Kabul and London amid reports that the captives were close to being freed through negotiations.

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But for Aristotle it is not the liberty of the individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being of the city that is the highest priority.

但对亚里士多德而言,并非个人自由,而是城市运作中,或能运作的福利,才是最要优先考虑的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Ads in newspapers, like this one in Charleston, would read, "Negroes wanted. I am paying the highest cash prices for young and likely Negroes, those having good front teeth and being otherwise sound."

报纸上的广告,比如查尔斯顿市的这一则,是这么写的,"诚购黑奴,本人愿付最高价格,购买年轻可靠之黑奴,需有整洁的牙齿以及悦耳的声音"

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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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