He's not saying that it is because we are rational creatures possessed of the power of speech that causes us to engage in politics.

他并不是在说,因为我们是理性生物,且具有辩论能力,所以才会导致我们参与政治。

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Far from having a sort of rational actor model of politics, he operates with an irrational actor model. He assumes that it is not reason but our passions that are the dominant force of human psychology, our desires, our aversions, our passions.

没有一个政治上理性的典范,他就着手塑造一个,不理性的典型，他假设,感情，而不是理性,是统领人类心理，欲望，厌恶和情绪的主要力量。

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