But the state of nature, for him, is rather a kind of thought experiment after the manner of experimental science.
但是对他来说,自然状态,是一种思想的实验,这是在科学实验之后。
When you came into this class in the beginning of the semester you may have thought you were just signing up for a class in political science.
当你们在学期一开始时,选修了这门课,可能会以为,这只是另一门政治科学课程,你可能未了解到。
But he believed that it was important to take the tools of science, to take the tools of rational thought and apply them to the good of the state, even if you saw that good of the state as in ships that could lob cannonballs even further against hostile ships, and that kind of thing.
但他同时还认为,借助利用科学和理性的工具,来为国家利益服务也是非常重要的,即使你所看到的所谓"国家利益",只是军舰上的炮弹能比敌舰射得更远,或者其他诸如此类的东西
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