It is a claim already, and as you've seen in Aristotle, towards the end of the history of the free polis, it is something necessary for mankind.

如你在亚里斯多德那里看到那样,在临近自由城邦历史的末期,这已经成为了一种宣言,这对人类来说是不可或缺的

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There has never been a regime in history that was so single-mindedly devoted to the end of producing that rarest and most difficult species of humanity called simply philosopher.

历史上从没有一个政体,会如此专一地致力于,催生最稀有,最难得的人类物种,即哲学家。

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