Aristotle certainly recognized that the accumulation of political knowledge you might say the gathering of data the organization of facts is very important. Books III IV V of the Politics shows the empirical side of Aristotle's politics.

亚里士多德确实,体认到积聚政治知识,你也能说是收集数据,整理实证是非常重要的事,政治学》第，III，IV，V，册显示出,亚里士多德政治的,经验依据层面。

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But just how does that kind of knowledge help us deal with the constant ebb and flow of political life?

但那种知识,如何协助,我们面对政治生活中的,恒存起伏？

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Today you might say political scientists and social scientists they're more modest in ascribing priority to any particular branch of knowledge.

今日，你会说,政治科学家与社会科学家,较不敢将这种优先考虑,加到任何特定的。

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There is, in other words, a kind of a transformative view of reason and knowledge and science, political science, civil science, running throughout Hobbes' work.

换句话说，有一种看待理性的变革性的视角,知识，科学，政治科学，民间科学，都贯穿于霍布斯的作品之中。

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