But just what was the nature of the revolution ? contemplated by our founder, Machiavelli, the founder of modern political science?

但什么样的革命,本质是我们这位创始人所思索，这位现代政治科学的创始人？

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Hobbes clearly saw himself, in many respects, as founding a political science modeled along that of the early founders of the scientific revolution.

霍布斯很清楚地看到他自己，在很多方面，和早期科学革命的创立者一样,是政治科学的奠基者。

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He assumed that such a course would lead to progress and the general improvement of the human condition, and it was that sort of thinking that lay at the heart of the scientific revolution and remains the faith on which modern science and technology rest.

他认为这将会引领进步,全面提升人类的生存状况,正是这个学说成为了,科技革命的核心并为现代科学技术,的发展奠定了良好的基础

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For Aristotle the point and purpose of political science is to mediate the causes of faction to help causes of faction that lead to revolution and civil war.

对亚里士多德而言,政治科学的论点与目的,是要调解形成派系的起因,避免派系形成，因那会导致革新与内战。

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