In both of these cases, I take it, Socrates' point is that his own individual moral integrity stands as a kind of litmus test, you might say, for whether to engage or disengage from political life.

从这两场事件看来，苏格拉底的观点是,他自己个人的道德正直,经得起立见分晓的检验，我们可以看到无论参与,政治生活与否。

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a claim for the individual's capacity to make a moral judgment after some period of trial, or after some period of experimentation.

个人在一段时间的尝试后,或是在一段时间的实验后，去做正确判断的能力。

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I can see how that happens with individual, how in moral man, in moral society, how do we get there as a society?

我有遇到一些很有道德的人，有道德的社会，但是作为整体的社会，应该怎样去做呢？

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Would it be just to torture the suspect to get the information or do you say no, there is a categorical moral duty of respect for individual rights?

为了拿到情报而对他严刑拷打，是否合理,抑或你不赞同，你认为有尊重个人权利的绝对道德责任？

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This is a problem that we will see considerably later in the term that vexes a very important political thinker by the name of Hobbes about whether an individual can somehow put their own sense of conscience or moral integrity even above the law.

这是个我们,稍后会仔细探讨的问题,也是让这位重要政治思想家,贺伯斯大力争论的问题,他质疑个人,是否可以将其自身的道义感,或道德正直置于法律之上。

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